ActiveMQ vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

Apache and VMware are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Apache is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.5, while VMware is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Additionally, 88% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

ActiveMQ

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88% willing to recommend

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

Read 82 VMware Tanzu Data Solutions reviews

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2,874 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between ActiveMQ and VMware Tanzu Data Solutions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed ActiveMQ vs. VMware Tanzu Data Solutions Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

ActiveMQ

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (7th), Relational Databases Tools (9th), Data Warehouse (7th)

Q&A Highlights

Miriam Tover

Service Delivery Manager at PeerSpot

Jun 27, 2019

What is the biggest difference between ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ?

RabbitMQ has a larger installed base and more active OSS community.

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Eyob Alemu

Technical Director at NIDP

Efficient data flow management with high performance and occasional stability improvements

For high traffic volumes where management time on ActiveMQ is minimal and where the rate of flow from the provider is slower than from the consumer, ActiveMQ offers the highest performance based on our experience. It has been efficient for data flow control between two endpoints, despite occasional unexpected glitches. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult

When we had outages, we had timeouts. Sometimes, the nodes would drop out of a cluster. Therefore, the applications would get timeouts. There is a newer version out that we're planning to upgrade to for some stability. It could also be caused by our design. The product must improve its reliability. It'd be nice if nodes could drop out and notify each other in a timely manner so that the applications wouldn't know if there was a problem.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"ActiveMQ brings the most value to small applications because it will not cost you very much to complete."

"It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable."

"Most people or many people recommended using ActiveMQ on small and medium-scale applications."

"There is a vibrant community, and it is one of the strongest points of this product. We always get answers to our problems. So, my experience with the community support has been good."

"ActiveMQ is very lightweight and quick."

"The main function I find valuable in ActiveMQ is facilitating message transfer within the client's internal network. ActiveMQ handles the message transfer from the internal network to the cloud. Regarding multi-protocols, we use different approaches based on client capabilities. Some clients connect for real-time data transfer, using database queries for periodic updates every ten minutes. We collect data from multiple clients, ensuring we get real-time sensor values where possible and periodic updates for others."

"I am impressed with the tool’s latency. Also, the messages in ActiveMQ wait in a queue. The messages will start to move when the system reopens after getting stuck."

"I appreciate many features including queue, topic, durable topic, and selectors. I also value a different support for different protocols such as MQTT and AMQP. It has full support for EIP, REST, Message Groups, UDP, and TCP."

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"The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable."

"Some of the most valuable features are publish and subscribe, fanout, and queues."

"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."

"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."

"The solution can scale."

"Very fast for query processing."

"It works very well with large database queries."

"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."

Cons

"I would rate the stability a five out of ten because sometimes it gets stuck, and we have to restart it. We"

"Message Management: Better management of the messages. Perhaps persist them, or put in another queue with another life cycle."

"The UI. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. The UI is too simple. Sometimes you wanna see the messages coming to the queue, and you have to refresh the dashboard, the console of the product."

"I would like the tool to improve compliance and stability. We will encounter issues while using the central applications. In the solution's future releases, I want to control and set limitations for databases."

"The tool needs to improve its installation part which is lengthy. The product is already working on that aspect so that the complete installation gets completed within a month."

"From the TPS point of view, it's like 100,000 transactions that need to be admitted from different devices and also from the different minor small systems. Those are best fit for Kafka. We have used it on the customer side, and we thought of giving a try to ActiveMQ, but we have to do a lot of performance tests and approval is required before we can use it for this scale."

"The clustering for sure needs improvement. When we were using it, the only thing available was an active/passive relationship that had to be maintained via shared file storage. That model includes a single point of failure in that storage medium."

"The solution's stability needs improvement."

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"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."

"Other tools besides RabbitMQ provide good TPS and HA."

"We needed to configure additional plugins. While it was relatively easy to do this on-premises, it became more challenging in the cloud."

"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."

"They should add more analytics. Their documentation could also be improved so that I don't have to bother my co-workers and tech support so often."

"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."

"This solution struggled with multi-regional synchronization."

"The debugging capabilities and testing flexibilities need to be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the open-source version."

"I use open source with standard Apache licensing."

"I think the software is free."

"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."

"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."

"It’s open source, ergo free."

"We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."

"There are no fees because it is open-source."

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"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."

"Pricing is good compared to other products. It's fine."

"The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."

"On a scale of one to five, with five being the most competitive pricing, I would rate this solution as a four."

"The pricing is okay."

"It’s an open-source solution."

"are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost."

"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ActiveMQ?

For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery.

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What needs improvement with ActiveMQ?

We need to address the non-deterministic load issues. Sometimes, ActiveMQ either restarts automatically or goes into ActiveMQ mode, causing interruptions. We need to enhance stability and improve t...

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What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?

We have a digital ID platform that uses various services running on Kafka. There are two main endpoints where services interact with external services. These include an automatic biometric service ...

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How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?

IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...

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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Greenplum?

The loading speed is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Greenplum?

It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.

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Compared 43% of the time

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs ActiveMQ

Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

Amazon SQS vs ActiveMQ

Compared 6% of the time

EMQX vs ActiveMQ

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

Red Hat AMQ vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

AMQ

Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres

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Apache

VMware

Overview

Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License

VMware Tanzu is a robust platform tailored for data warehousing, complex analytics, BI applications, and predictive analytics. It excels in scalability, performance, and parallel processing, enhancing data handling efficiency. Users report significant productivity improvements and streamlined operations, making it ideal for comprehensive data solutions.

Sample Customers

University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc.

General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University

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