TIBCO EBX Scalability

AH
Lead Data Modeler - Enterprise Data Strategies and Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability may be somewhat limited. Basically, the application is designed to run on a single application here. You can have it hooked to various different databases. It works with Oracle or SQL Server. We implemented a SQL Server. SQL Server itself is not horizontally scalable. You can't add servers. They're just replications. It's good for high availability, however, not for scalability. That said, it also can run in SQL Azure, and SQL Azure in my understanding is scalable both vertically and horizontally.

The tool is not limited. On the database tier, the database isn't limited. It's only limited by your implementation choice. If we're in Oracle or SQL Azure, we can scale. For reference, data is probably not that relevant because it's relatively small volumes in the grand scheme of things.

However, for the application, if we rolled this out across the organization and had a lot of activity, we could get into potential trouble as you can't run with load balancing and such. You basically have an active-passive failover. You have some high availability and not the scalability of the applications. That could be designed in various ways. We haven't tried that yet.

We only have a handful of people who have access to the solution. They're either stewards such as subject matter experts or they are some kind of reviewers, approvers, overseers. There are also developers that are functioning like admins. There are two main departments that are using it currently.

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Davide Conti - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at daconti

I was not only working as a business analyst, but I was also programming with TIBCO EBX. TIBCO EBX is not always scalable, because if you start to process high amounts of data, you need a better UI. You can only display a limited amount of data on the screen. For example, 100 rows on the screen. If you have a lot of rows on the screen it's taking a long time until it gets displayed. There are some things, such as background validation that, at a certain point, have to be turned off because over a certain amount of records it slows down the system. However, it takes more than 30,000 to 40,000 records per table to start to have problems.

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Lourens Janse Van Rensburg - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant/data engineer at A2zconsulting

It is a scalable solution.

There are thousands of users of the solution in my company.

If we want to expand the use of the solution in our company, then we can create space for any number of users we want.

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Chetan Thote - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution allows for horizontal scaling, where more machines are added, or vertical scaling where data is transferred to a larger host machine.

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MS
Technical Leader at Servier

TIBCO EBX cannot scale vertically.

We have approximately 20,000 people using this solution in my company.

We have approximately 26 domains and every domain has an administrator.

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SD
Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The solution doesn't scale as well as we would expect. Although it has some dependency on the underlying database but still we would expect better MPP features and also the tool should be able to optimize the underlying clusters more effectively.

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AM
Group Leader, DaaS, Integrated Insights at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I rate the product a six out of ten. My company has around 100 users for the product. We have plans to increase usage since we will roll out tools in more countries. 

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NM
Sr Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We have more than 48 users at this time. 

The solution is scalable and customizable. 

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AK
Head of Architecture at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have 510 people using the solution.

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Lourens Janse Van Rensburg - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant/data engineer at A2zconsulting

It can scale, you need the scalability.

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it_user146115 - PeerSpot reviewer
National Integration Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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