JBoss vs TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transactions comparison

Red Hat and TIBCO are both solutions in the Application Server category. Red Hat is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5, while TIBCO is ranked #18. Red Hat holds a 18.1% mindshare in AppS, compared to TIBCO’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution.

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We performed a comparison between JBoss and TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transactions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

JBoss

Ranking in Application Server

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transact...

Ranking in Application Server

18th

Average Rating

0.0

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Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Server category, the mindshare of JBoss is 18.1%, up from 17.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transactions is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Srinadh Puli

VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Automation aids installation while management consolidation needs improvement

We are currently using Ansible for Jira installations and all the management tasks. We perform some tasks manually, however, Ansible helps in automating some of these processes I find JBoss to be lightweight and easier to manage compared to WebSphere. It allows for simple modification of…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about JBoss?

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JBoss?

JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic. Though I haven't done a detailed price comparison, the licensing fee is cheaper, and due to its flexibility, th...

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What needs improvement with JBoss?

They are trying to make it less heavyweight since app servers often deliver a lot of functionality. Still, if we aren't leveraging them, they can be too much for certain use cases. Making it lighte...

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ActiveSpaces Transactions

Overview

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), a market-leading, fully certified Java EE platform, gives you a single platform to quickly develop and deploy applications. Use traditional Red Hat JBoss EAP to gain business agility with your existing applications and reduce the costs of proprietary platforms.

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TIBCO ActiveSpaces Transactions is a fully distributed, in-memory transactional application server for Java that powers event-driven business-critical systems demanding the highest levels of performance and availability with a single, unified platform and dramatically reduced overall costs. Its 'always-on' high availability provides for low-latency fault-tolerant systems and fail-over that is transparent to applications with data, service, and transactional consistency maintained no databases required. ActiveSpaces Transactions delivers this power and extreme scalability while running on commodity hardware and open systems.

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Sample Customers

Tata Sky, Nissan, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Novamedia, American Product Distributors, Advanced Micro Devices, Emirates Group, E*TRADE

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