Apache Kafka vs TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) | TrustRadius

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Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 59 reviews and ratings

Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 447 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Apache Kafka

TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

Pre-built connectors

Connector modification

Support for real-time and batch integration

Data quality services

Data security features

Monitoring console

Pros

Apache Kafka is able to handle a large number of I/Os (writes) using 3-4 cheap servers.
It scales very well over large workloads and can handle extreme-scale deployments (eg. Linkedin with 300 billion user events each day).
The same Kafka setup can be used as a messaging bus, storage system or a log aggregator making it easy to maintain as one system feeding multiple applications.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Scribe Labs documents our ETL work in a very concise manner.
The User Interface has a nice-looking design.
We can export files to Dropbox.
Installing the agent is a quick and easy process for on-premise.
The Net Change feature is good.

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Employee in Customer Service

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Still a bit inmature, some clients have required recoding in the last few versions
New feaures coming very fast, several upgrades a year may be required
Not many commercial companies provide support

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Juan Francisco Tavira

Global Technology Centre - Middleware

ProdubanFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Some level of beginner training would be great. There are some commands that aren't immediately clear what the slight difference is between each one and what scenarios make one command better than another.
Similarly, example Scribe maps could also be useful, if that's possible. Again, it was a little slow for me getting started and seeing examples always makes things easier for me to understand.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Apache Kafka 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Kafka is quickly becoming core product of the organization, indeed it is replacing older messaging systems. No better alternatives found yet

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Juan Francisco Tavira

Global Technology Centre - Middleware

ProdubanFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.6

Based on 28 answers

The project which required the Scribe tool has been cancelled due to business direction change. Unless another project requiring Scribe comes up, it will likely not be renewed. Companies are always looking for cost savings though and Scribe is less expensive than competitors, so you never know.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.5

Based on 24 answers

As mentioned in the previous sections, setup and maintenance is extremely easy. We don't have many issues for which we need support and there is no need for deep technical skills to use Tibco Cloud Integration platform.The solution provides everything we need for our specific use case, being the replication of our Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM data to our on premise database for reporting.

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IT application engineer

NikogroupElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 501-1000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.6

Based on 12 answers

We have not had any issues with TIBCO not being available when needed. I have only had to contact support less than 5 times in about 5 year time frame due to syncing issues or a problem with the agent. Support is very quick to respond as well as very helpful.

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Technician in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Performance

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.1

Based on 12 answers

TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)'s performance of the user interface are not to be complained about. The user interface is swift and is a pleasant user experience. The replication jobs take some time to finish but that is because the number of records to be updated/created on a daily basis is quite big. I did split up the jobs between highrunners (entities with a lot of changes) I update on a daily basis and quite stable entities that I update weekly. That solved my issue of a way to long replication.

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IT application engineer

NikogroupElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Apache Kafka 8.8

Based on 6 answers

We are using the Apache open source version of Kafka. The community is a good place to ask questions. and we can get most of our problems resolved there.

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Strategist in Information Technology

Package/Freight Delivery Company, 10,001+ employees

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.4

Based on 36 answers

For creating new process, you have lots of palettes to do every develop you need.For created process it is easy to understand even if you have ever seen before it. You can analyze your process in all their detail.User Experience is positive for beginner and expertise people. Just debug mode is still raw, but better in TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x than TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x .

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Sebastiano Manzella

Solution Developer

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpaUtilities, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 4.8

Based on 6 answers

Before using TIBCO Businessworks, I participated an official training with a specialized instructor. In this training, I learned what I needed to know to build some applications or web services and how to manage its. It was been very important to me. I understood many technical stuff to familiarize with this powerful platform. I can advice TIBCO Educational Services.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Semiconductors Company, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 6.4

Based on 4 answers

Not efficient. If we face any issue , we will be left alone to struck where we are.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 7.2

Based on 12 answers

If we don't design the process correctly, it can do lot of damage (like deleting files or data etc.,) and might assume product issue rather than a design flaw. So it is always recommended to do thorough unit testing , QA and a design review even for a small process to avoid major problems.

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Srinivasa Rao Velineni

EAI Engineer, Enterprise Tibco Business Analyst

QuiksilverApparel & Fashion, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I would only use RabbitMQ over Kafka when you need to have delay queues or tons of small topics/queues around.I don't know too much about Pulsar - currently evaluating it - but it's supposed to have the same or better throughput while allowing for tons of queues. Stay tuned - I might update this review after we finish evaluating Pulsar. It's much less battle-tested though.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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We have used Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services previously for various projects including data migration and integration, although the product is free and has very high flexibility it doesnt have the usability and connectors of scribe that allow you to quickly create basic integrations and have normal users manage and review these setups

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Consultant in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

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TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) 6.3

Based on 7 answers

We have not yet needed to scale the solution for which we use Tibco Cloud Integration. As mentioned earlier, we only use it to replicate our cloud hosted Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM environment. We don't have any plans to use the tool more extensively in the future.

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IT application engineer

NikogroupElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive impact on ROI since now we can use one large deployment of Apache Kafka that can be used for multiple scenarios ( storage systems, log aggregate, messaging queue ).
It is open-source so there are no licenses or subscription fees reducing the cost of deployment.
Data can now be ingested and analyzed in real-time making it easy to fine-tune the customer experience and decision making for internal IT.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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It was a crucial part of our business in the early stages of our company as we built out our integration strategy.
Over time the cost of the platform becomes a bit of a bear especially in light of some of the shortcomings that the product has.

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VP Professional Services

DispatchInternet, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Apache Kafka Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) Editions & Modules

Edition

Basic	Starting from $400 per month, billed annually¹
Premium	Starting from $1,500 per month, billed annually²

number of iPaaS apps
number of iPaaS apps; includes additional functionality

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Rating Summary

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