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    Azure Web PubSub

    N/AN/AAzure Web PubSub is a service available from Microsoft's Azure suite of apps and services, that offers real-time messaging for web applications using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern. With it, users can develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets. The user can create loosely coupled, scalable applications—including chats, live broadcasting, and IoT dashboards—with the publish-subscribe…

    $0

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    TIBCO Rendezvous

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO's Rendezvous is message oriented middleware. The software uses messages to enable distributed application programs to communicate across a wide variety of hardware platforms and programming languages.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Web PubSubIBM ConfluentTIBCO Rendezvous
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Web PubSubIBM ConfluentTIBCO Rendezvous
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).—
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    User Ratings
    Azure Web PubSubIBM ConfluentTIBCO Rendezvous
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
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    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Web PubSubIBM ConfluentTIBCO Rendezvous
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Rendezvous is a fast and reliable mode of communication, although they are already outdated by TIBCO FTL, which is even more faster and reliable than it's predecessor. They are more suitable for communication between the TIBCO products as all the TIBCO suite of products support the TIBCO Rendezvous. They are more widely used by banks and stock ticker applications to broadcast the ticker information. Most of the applications support Java JMS mode easily and out of the box than the TIBCO Rendezvous. Hence the TIBCO software themselves have their own version of the JMS server called Tibco EMS ( Tibco Enterprise messaging service).
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    Pros
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • TIBCO RV supports faster delivery to broadcast any messages
    • This is a best protocol to be used when we wanted to do Asynchronous communications
    • RV supports multiple subscribers with a simple configuration
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    Cons
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Poor management tool.
    • TIBCO RV needs a good knowledge on own networks.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
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    Cloud Software Group
    Not likely to renew or buy the license as they are using the TIBCO EMS as the primary mode of communication.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    IBM
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    Cloud Software Group
    Attending an official TIBCO classroom training, where you can have an active participation with an expert teacher, you can find the answers to all yours needs. In any case, if you are not satisfied on your requests, the teacher takes the time to find the best solution.
    I had the opportunity to attend one and I could learn all features I needed for my business: now I can say TIBCO Rendezvous is very usable.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.
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    Cloud Software Group
    I never needed support for TIBCO Rendezvous. I always used it without any issue and until now I don't remember some situations where it interrupted its 24/7 uptime.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO EMS provides centralized server administration to manger the delivery of services in run time
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    • It enables us to develop event driven application.
    • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
    • It reduces latency of communication.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • All a non-TIBCO based applications need to use the TIBCO Rendezvous APIs and reprogrammed to communicate with other application using the Tibco Rendezvous.
    • All applications and enterprises need to have an enterprise license to communicate with each other.
    • TIBCO offers their Rendezvous APIs in various programming languages. Hence any application can use these APIs to start using the Tibco Rendezvous. Although most application prefers not to as TIBCO Rendezvous is TIBCO 's closely guarded recipe.
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