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IBM MQ vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (1st)
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (7th), Relational Databases Tools (9th), Data Warehouse (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

SelvaKumar4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers the ability to batch metadata transfers between systems that support MQ as the communication method
We find it scalable for internal applications, but not so much for external integrations. It should support a wider range of protocols, not just a few specific ones. Many other products have broader protocol support, and IBM MQ is lagging in that area. IBM MQ needs to improve the UI for quicker logging. Users should also have a lot more control over logging, with a dashboard-like interface. That's something they should definitely work on.
Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Integrates between distributed systems: For example, it can help integrate processing between mainframe, client-server, web-based applications by integrating the messages, supporting Service Oriented Architecture."
"The solution can scale well."
"The scalability of IBM MQ is good."
"The first things are its simplicity and its robustness. Compared to any other product, it's the most robust I've worked with. And it's extremely easy to manage."
"We use queue managers/concentrators for message flow going upstream and downstream on applications with enterprise licenses."
"The feature I find most effective for ensuring message delivery without loss is the backup threshold. This feature allows for automatic retries of transactional messages within a specified threshold."
"It is quite stable."
"The high availability and session recovery are the most valuable features because we need the solution live all day."
"The security is great."
"The stability of this solution was very good."
"Companies can scale the solution, so long as they have server room."
"We chose Greenplum because of the architecture in terms of clustering databases and being able to have, or at least utilize the resources that are sitting on a database."
"With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"The solution can scale."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
 

Cons

"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."
"We would like to see the IBM technical support team extend their hand to providing support for other cloud vendors like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS"
"It could get a face lift with a modern marketing campaign."
"I wanted to upgrade Windows Server. It's not that easy to move."
"IBM MQ is not very user-friendly."
"I would like the ability to connect with some of the more recent offerings, such as API Connect; being able to publish our MQ endpoints, the queues, the messaging infrastructure as IT assets."
"The user interface should be enhanced to include more monitoring features and other metrics. The metrics should include not only those from the IBM MQ point of view but also CPU and memory utilization."
"There are no improvements needed at this time."
"Initial setup is a little complex. It took around two weeks to deploy."
"Maintenance is time-consuming."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
"They should improve on the ability to scale your queues in a very simple and elegant way with the same power that they have would be great."
"The initial deployment was a little difficult."
"The solution needs improvement on performance."
"Some integration with other platforms like design tools, and ETL development tools, that will enable some advanced functionality, like fully down processing, etc."
"This solution struggled with multi-regional synchronization."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
"You have to license per application installation and if you expand vertically or horizontally, you will be paying for more licenses. The licenses are approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a license, it can get expensive quite quickly."
"The license for IBM MQ is commercial and not cheap. You get a multi-platform solution, which is important because it lets you connect systems on mainframes, personal solutions, Unix, Linux, etc."
"I think IBM needs to look at its pricing. The prices of IBM products should be simple. The old way of pricing should now be moving on to the cloud to be pay as you go, a plan-based kind of pricing."
"It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs. But, IBM is IBM, so I guess we'll pay for it."
"The price is high."
"99.999 percent availability for less than a penny per message over the past 25 years. IBM MQ is the cheapest software in the IBM software portfolio, and it is one of the best."
"Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs. It is also easier to upgrade/maintain."
"Pricing is good compared to other products. It's fine."
"It’s an open-source solution."
"Since the tool is an open-source product, there is no need to pay anything."
"The pricing is okay."
"This is an open source solution."
"It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."
"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
38%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
4%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is MQ software?
Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" solutions that have come into the market place. From my perspective, while each pro...
What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data used for analytics. Apache Kafka is very good if you have a high number of user...
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...
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.
What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Greenplum?
Maintenance is time-consuming. It takes time to VACUUM and ANALYZE the tables to remove the fragmentations.
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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