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IBM MQ vs Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (1st)
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 21.0%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is 1.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ21.0%
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS1.8%
Other77.2%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

David Pizinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Technical Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has faced unexpected VM restarts but continues to deliver messages reliably
I'm not sure if we've utilized IBM MQ's high availability. Our MQ VMs are set up in clusters, and I think our queue managers are set up in pairs. However, I don't know if we actually use any specific high availability features of IBM MQ that are out of the box. We have it architected with high availability because we use F5 load balancers, and everything about our architecture is highly available. I haven't personally used the management tools with IBM MQ, but we do have them, and our middleware folks leverage them. I can't really comment on them because I don't use them myself. I don't think the management tools help optimize message flows, and I'm not really aware of how they help in this. I'm not familiar with dynamic routing for IBM MQ.
AR
System Administrator at BH Bank
It's scalable and easy to use, and we have local support here in Tunisia
We have an application-presentation layer, and we use JBoss to communicate with the application layer. The interceptors use Active MQ.  JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support.  JBoss could add more automation. We have been using JBoss for five…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Stability is awesome. MQ is up all the time."
"It allows data transmission from multiple platforms in a fault-tolerant manner, that's the biggest feature."
"The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages."
"The MQ appliance has very good performance."
"Technically, it has made our lives a lot easier."
"This solution has improved and influenced the communication between different applications, then standardized that communication."
"We like IBM MQ for our synchronous communications and transactional applications that require a lot of CPS."
"We have found the MQ messaging topologies valuable."
"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."
"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."
 

Cons

"The installation of product upgrades and patches is very difficult. It requires the use of the IBM Installation Manager (IM)."
"Monitoring is a big part. We would like to see if we get back out queues or the queue depth goes high, so that we can be alerted on that."
"What could be improved is the high-availability. The way MQ works is that it separates the high-availability from the workload balance. The scalability should be easier. If something happens so that the messages are not available on each node, scalability is only possible for the workload balance."
"I'm not sure that current version has event-driven mechanism requests that people go for."
"The main issue we are having with the solution is due to the connection dropouts which have been going on for a long time now."
"If they could come up with monitoring dashboards that would be good. We are using external monitoring tools, apart from our IBM MQ, to monitor IBM MQ."
"The user interface might be an area with room for improvement, but we use MQ Explorer and that helps solve a lot of our problems there."
"IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'."
"JBoss could add more automation."
"JBoss could add more automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a different platform price between Windows, z/OS, and iSeries."
"Licensing for this software is on a yearly basis. The standard fee includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost."
"The solution costs are high, it is going to cost a fair bit for annual operating costs and support."
"IBM MQ is expensive and they charge based on the CPU."
"IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
"The pricing needs improvement."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
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