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    Amazon SQS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services (AWS) Provides the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), a managed message queue service which supports the safe decoupling and distribution of different components in a cloud infrastructure and cloud applications.

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    IBM Event Automation

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.N/A
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    Amazon SQSIBM Event Automation
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    Standard Queue
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    FIFO Queue
    $0.00000005
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    Amazon SQSIBM Event Automation
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon SQSIBM Event Automation
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    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SQSIBM Event Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.1
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.9
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon SQSIBM Event Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you are looking to build something that just requires a simple queue service (as the name implies) this is great for it. You might look elsewhere though if you get into more complicated needs. This is also very well suited if you are already using other services with AWS and intend to fully build whatever you are building in AWS. If you are looking for a mixed environment -- SQS is not for you
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    IBM
    IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • It provides an always-available serverless queue for workflows or mission-critical processes.
    • Is extremely low cost and overall costs to our environments have been negligible.
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    IBM
    • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
    • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Almost all of the functionality has been covered by SQS, but they could improve the throughput time.
    • Also, they could provide built-in Cloud Watch, so that we can easily configure it without any external efforts.
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    IBM
    • Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
    • Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
    • Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Online blogging and documentation for SQS is great. There are many examples of implementing it and if you look hard enough, more than likely there are examples that meet the exact case with which you are working
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    IBM
    I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    The most comparable products are RabbitMQ, and perhaps ActiveMQ. Until recently, AWS did not offer a managed ActiveMQ product. Running RabbitMQ will never be to my team's competitive advantage; we wanted a managed service.
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    IBM
    In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Positive impact - time allocation towards different features
    • Negative impact - too many resources dedicated towards debugging
    • Positive impact - less manual labor during testing
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    IBM
    • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
    • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
    • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
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