Drools vs. TIBCO BusinessEvents

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Drools
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Drools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A
TIBCO BusinessEvents
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Enterprises are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of events that occur continuously. Hidden amongst them can be stalled business processes, opportunities for value creation, potential fraud, dissatisfied customers, failing equipment, and more. TIBCO BusinessEvents® proactively identifies these critical events, responds intelligently in real-time to navigate the fast-moving business environments and optimize outcomes. Decision-making in businesses requires a comprehensive…N/A
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Drools

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TIBCO BusinessEvents
Chose TIBCO BusinessEvents
Drools is an open source alternative for CEP solutions, that provides a business rules engine. Unfortunately it comes without support, while the TIBCO support for BusinessEvents is very efficient.
Additionally, TIBCO BusinessEvents suite provides several additional components …
Chose TIBCO BusinessEvents
We used TIBCO BW so as successor, we start using TIBCO BE. We use also EMS for our messaging bus, and ActiveSpaces as large in-memory data cache, and Spotfire gives us to present and visualize the analyzed data.
Chose TIBCO BusinessEvents
TIBCO BE helped us by having all the required capabilities packaged within one product which is very descriptive in the documentation.
Chose TIBCO BusinessEvents
These tools are all far better than BE in terms of flexibility and ability to scale with the right architecture and best practices. The wealth of resources available for open source and widely used technologies means that onboarding is so much easier than with any of the TIBCO …
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Confluent
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Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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User Ratings
DroolsTIBCO BusinessEvents
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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7.2
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User Testimonials
DroolsTIBCO BusinessEvents
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO BusinessEvents is part of the CEP (Complex Event Processing) family, this means that it fits perfectly in all those scenarios where a correlation between incoming events is required. Where a stateful process is necessary. It does not fit well for a kind of Process Orchestrator scope, where simple events are coming in, and there is a well-defined behavior the system, would have on incoming request, and no particular reason to use a rule engine and its complexity. Anyway, there are particular cases where BusinessEvents would be a good actor in orchestrating a portion of CEP solutions activities
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Pros
Open Source
  • Writing rules with business focus
  • Rules evolution and maintenance
  • separate business logic from program code
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • It allows us to build rule-based model-driven application, to collect, filter, analyze, correlate various business events in our real-time event flow
  • It makes various business applications/components easy to integrate (loosely decoupled but chained via the events flow) together
  • Its distributed rule engine and embedded in-memory data grid (ActiveSpace) gives us a lot of flexibility and room to play with a large amount of rules and data with high performance
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Cons
Open Source
  • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
  • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
  • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
  • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Better integration with R versions and better debug for R-scripts in Spotfire. There are inconsistencies in syntactic expressions accepted by R-studio and not accepted in Spotfire. Accelerating the debug would be awesome. Having a command like View (data frame) that directly output in the dashboard would be a great accelerator.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
I was not part of evaluation of the products in this space in my organization. But I feel BE is better in terms of RIO if compared with some commercial products from Orcle, IBM and SAP. I strongly feel difficulty in using cloud native features is one big shortcoming in current product offering. This will tend customer like us to explore options that are well suited with ur cloud first vision.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
  • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Positive : Real-time event stream processing helps handle transactions very efficiently.
  • Negative : Earlier versions of BE (5.0 & 5.1) had major issues in data handling in cache that impacted the data integrity of the application.
  • Positive : Decision Tables are a huge plus in TIBCO BE.
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