Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Processing huge loads of data Integrating well with IoT Platform on Amazon Integration with overall AWS Ecosystem Scalability Read full review 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. Joe Yee IT Strategic Technical Advisor
Read full review Cons 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 Read full review 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. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Read full review 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 Read full review ScreenShots