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Red Hat AMQ vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 28, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Red Hat AMQ
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
10
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
7.0
Number of Reviews
84
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (6th), Relational Databases Tools (14th), Data Warehouse (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of Red Hat AMQ is 9.5%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 6.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions6.4%
Red Hat AMQ9.5%
Other84.1%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

SachinJain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at Intuitive Technology Partners
Efficiently manages high availability and fault tolerance for critical systems with user-friendly management features
I have experience with features such as message persistence and fault tolerance because I configured high availability and fault tolerance for the client environment, including active-active and active-passive configurations. I mainly prefer active-active. I created a security feature for user authentication and authorization in Red Hat AMQ using vault. When you enable the vault, then your whole Red Hat AMQ becomes more secure. Management is straightforward. I configured it and created documentation. The operations team takes care of the operation part. I educate them on how to manage access, so they can easily add new people who join the company or manage the people who leave. The benefits of using Red Hat AMQ include easy configuration and monitoring. On the portal, I can monitor how many packets or alerts have been generated or sent to the end user via Red Hat AMQ along with messages or emails. It also shows utilization in the tool. These features also come with other AMQs such as Amazon and IBM.
Moisés Guillén - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware vSphere | Horizon View | Citrix Virtual Apps | Microsoft Intune | Azure | SCCM | Windows 365 at Adecco
Has improved server deployment speed and simplified Kubernetes cluster administration
My main use case for VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is Tanzu Basic TKB version 2.4 I focus on the creation of Kubernetes clusters with VMware Tanzu Data Solutions. VMware Tanzu Data Solutions has positively impacted my organization because it is efficient, easy, fast, and aids in the creation and…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature for us is the operator-based automation that is provided by Streams for infrastructure as well as user and topic management. This saves a lot of time and effort on our part to provide infrastructure. For example, the deployment of infrastructure is reduced from approximately a week to a day."
"I can organize the tool with microservices, which allows me to use it across different services. It is easy to learn."
"Reliability is the main criterion for selecting this tool for one of the busiest airports in Mumbai."
"The solution is very lightweight, easy to configure, simple to manage, and robust since it launched."
"The benefits of using Red Hat AMQ include easy configuration and monitoring; on the portal, I can monitor how many packets or alerts have been generated or sent to the end user via Red Hat AMQ along with messages or emails, and it also shows utilization in the tool."
"Red Hat AMQ's best feature is its reliability."
"This product is well adopted on the OpenShift platform. For organizations like ours that use OpenShift for many of our products, this is a good feature."
"My impression is that it is average in terms of scalability."
"The solution is stable."
"Reliability for the messages is key. RabbitMQ ensures your messages are safe. They are not deleted and stuff."
"It is easy to use. The addition of more queues and more services can be managed very easily."
"RabbitMQ will help to remove a lot of the complexities and create a loosely coupled codebase."
"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."
"A very good, open-source platform."
"We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another."
"VMware Tanzu Data Solutions has positively impacted my organization because it is efficient, easy, fast, and aids in the creation and administration of web servers."
 

Cons

"There is improvement needed to keep the support libraries updated."
"There are several areas in this solution that need improvement, including clustering multi-nodes and message ordering."
"This product needs better visualization capabilities in general."
"There are some aspects of the monitoring that could be improved on. There is a tool that is somewhat connected to Kafka called Service Registry. This is a product by Red Hat that I would like to see integrated more tightly."
"Red Hat AMQ's cost could be improved, and it could have better integration."
"The challenge is the multiple components it has. This brings a higher complexity compared to IBM MQ, which is a single complete unit."
"The product needs to improve its documentation and training."
"The turnaround of adopting new versions of underlying technologies sometimes is too slow."
"RabbitMQ is clearly better supported on Linux than it is on Windows. There are idiosyncrasies in the Windows version that are not there on Linux."
"When you have complex tasks, RabbitMQ is hard to use."
"Extra filters would be helpful."
"There are some security concerns that have been raised with this product."
"It doesn't have any GUI-based monitoring tools."
"The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"Red Hat AMQ's pricing could be improved."
"There is a subscription needed for this solution and there are support plans available."
"This is a very cost-effective solution and the pricing is much better than competitors."
"The solution is open-source."
"are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost."
"It is an open-source product."
"The price is pretty good."
"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
"This is an open source solution."
"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."
"We are using the open-source version of this solution."
"The pricing is okay."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise49
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Red Hat AMQ?
The areas for improvement include cost, which is a primary concern. The deployment process is simple, but the cost is very important. Additionally, the management portal should be more user-friendl...
What is your primary use case for Red Hat AMQ?
For use cases for Red Hat AMQ, let's take banking purposes. This depends upon the firm or the service or product company. For example, let's take HDFC Bank or any other bank. Whenever a customer de...
What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat AMQ?
I work primarily with Red Hat. For IBM, I have worked with their channel partner, not directly with IBM. For Amazon, I work with partners only. I am working with one company as a consultant. I also...
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 do you like most about VMware RabbitMQ?
RabbitMQ provides access to SDKs for development and the ability to raise and log tickets if we encounter issues. We can integrate RabbitMQ using various languages like Java or Python using the pro...
 

Also Known As

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss AMQ
Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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