Amazon Kinesis vs. TIBCO Messaging

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Kinesis
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Kinesis is a streaming analytics suite for data intake from video or other disparate sources and applying analytics for machine learning (ML) and business intelligence.
$0.01
per GB data ingested / consumed
TIBCO Messaging
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
TIBCO offers high-performance messaging technology, and gives customers flexibility and unique choice between Commercial and Open-source messaging solutions. TIBCO Messaging is a comprehensive messaging portfolio available to meet a wide variety of use cases and deployment models.N/A
Pricing
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Editions & Modules
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
$0.00850
per GB data ingested / consumed
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
$0.04
per hour per stream
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
$0.11
per hour
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
tiered pricing starting at $0.029
per month first 500 TB ingested
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
8.3
2 Ratings
3% above category average
TIBCO Messaging
-
Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Small Businesses
IBM Streams
IBM Streams
Score 9.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 7.9 out of 10
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon KinesisTIBCO Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Kinesis is a great replacement for Kafka and it works better whenever the components of the solution are AWS based. Best if extended fan-out is not required, but still price-performance ratio is very good for simplifying maintenance.
I would go with a different option if the systems to be connected are legacy, for instance in the case of traditional messaging clients.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
If you need a robust, extensible, reliable Enterprise Service Bus, with "Enterprise" being the key word here, TIBCO [Enterprise Message Service] will be able to fulfill every expectation. As proof of concept, or ad-hoc implementations, it might not be as well suited due to the infrastructure required.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Processing huge loads of data
  • Integrating well with IoT Platform on Amazon
  • Integration with overall AWS Ecosystem
  • Scalability
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Tibco EMS performs very well, and it meets our stringent performance requirements for corporate messaging backbone.
  • Tibco EMS scales well, and this is another of our stringent requirements.
  • Tibco provides good support for the EMS product, and continues to improve it. This is important as we don't want to use something that does not keep up with the changes in the technology landscape.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Not a queue system, so little visibility into "backlog" if there is any
  • Confusing terminology to make sure events aren't missed
  • Sometimes didn't seem to trigger Lambda functions, or dropped events when a lot came in
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • In terms of TIBCO Messaging, it would nice to have a more out-of-the-box way of linking its objects (queues, topics) directly to those of other popular solutions like MQ or Kafka.
  • Not being able to filter (that is, using selectors) through patterns/subtexts on the message body is missed on occasions.
  • Given the current trends and state-of-art, lift & shift of on-premise EMS clusters to cloud architectures should be more directly attainable.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
TIBCO Software Inc.
EMS is a solid system and I see no reason to abandon it, in fact I am eager to see what the next versions will offer and future road maps. Knowing we have support to help us in case of problems is invaluable, both in case of critical issues and to improve overall performance.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
The documentation was confusing and lacked examples. The streams suddenly stopped working with no explanation and there was no information in the logs. All these were more difficult when dealing with enhanced fan-out. In fact, we were about to abort the usage of Kinesis due to a misunderstanding with enhanced fan-out.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
The main benefit was around set up - incredibly easy to just start using Kinesis. Kinesis is a real-time data processing platform, while Kafka is more of a message queue system. If you only need a message queue from a limited source, Kafka may do the job. More complex use cases, with low latency, higher volume of data, real time decisions and integration with multiple sources and destination at a decent price, Kinesis is better.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
We also use other messaging products: IBM MQ, especially for integration with other systems (server2server), which has been an industry standard for a long time, and Apache Kafka for cloud-native applications. EMS is a worse option compared to them, but it is still acceptable.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Caused us to need to re-engineer some basic re-try logic
  • Caused us to drop some content without knowing it
  • Made monitoring much more difficult
  • We eventually switched back to SQS because Kinesis is not the same as a Queue system
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Improved developer productivity as TIBCO Enterprise Message Service requires minimal coding
  • Quicker time to market as the configuration / onboarding can be automated with this tool
  • Ability to onboard more clients/consumers as the tool can handle large volumes seamless
  • Improved visibility on the end to end process as the product provides monitoring by using JMS header information
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