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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Pub/Sub

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Pub/Sub, a managed message oriented middleware supporting many-to-many asynchronous messaging between applications.N/A

    Azure IoT Edge

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAzure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Users can deploy cloud workloads—artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or business logic—to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers. The vendor states that by moving certain workloads to the edge of the network, devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.N/A
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    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
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    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Features
    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    Feature
    Google Cloud Pub/Sub
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Device Security00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    IoT Integration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Small Businesses
    Amazon SNS
    Score8.7 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon SNS
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    TIBCO Rendezvous
    Score6 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Pub/SubAzure IoT Edge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    If you want to stream high volumes of data, be it for ETL streaming or event sourcing, Google Cloud Pub/Sub is your go-to tool. It's easy to learn, easy to observe its metrics and scales with ease without additional configuration so if you have more producers of consumers, all you need to do is to deploy on k8s your solutions so that you can perform autoscaling on your pods to adjust to the data volume. The DLQ is also very transparent and easy to configure. Your code will have no logic whatsoever regarding orchestrating pubsub, you just plug and play. However, if you are not in the Google Cloud Pub/Sub environment, you might have trouble or be most likely unable to use it since I think it's a product of Google Cloud.
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    Microsoft
    Deployment of mission critical business support solutions particularly those that support virtual learning and video conferencing environments. This is because they help organisations such as the university to effectively transition to a digitally compliant organisation.
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    Pros
    Google
    • With a pub/sub architecture the consumer is decoupled in time from the publisher i.e. if the consumer goes down, it can replay any events that occurred during its downtime.
    • It also allows consumer to throttle and batch incoming data providing much needed flexibility while working with multiple types of data sources
    • A simple and easy to use UI on cloud console for setup and debugging
    • It enables event-driven architectures and asynchronous parallel processing, while improving performance, reliability and scalability
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    Microsoft
    • It works even if there is no internet at client location. It will record all the generated data and only send them to cloud storage when there is internet connection.
    • It allows you to bring cloud functionality down to Edge location in the form of docker container.
    • It also supports two way communication from device to cloud and vice-versa.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Would be nice if the queue could be extended beyond 7 days.
    • We found it a bit tricky replay unacknowledged messages when needed.
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    Microsoft
    • For some reason, the containerized architecture was also making this very hard
    • Had some issues when debugging edge modules, needs a professional grade remote debugging
    • Industrial automation still requires attention. OPC-UA was good but Modbus or custom PLCs etc was painful to set up
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    It serves all of our purposes in the most transparent way I can imagine, after seeing other message queueing providers, I can only attest to its quality.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    It is easy to create Google Cloud Pub/Sub topics from both Web Console and CLI commands.
    Google Cloud Pub/Sub supports creation of one or more subscriptions.
    By supporting a BigQuery Pub/Sub subscription to automatically write to a BigQuery table it simplifies development by avoiding implementation of a custom micro service for writes to BigQuery.
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    Microsoft
    Most of the time it works perfectly, does not require any attention, but when there is a problem, it's really hard to diagnose it. I think the documentation for the positive scenarios are good on the Microsoft side, but for negative scenarios, I don't think there is enough community help out there, in my opinion.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    I have never faced a single problem in 4 years.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    It's very fast, can be even better if you use protobuf.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    They have decent documentation, but you need to pay for support. We weren't able to answer all our questions with the documentation and didn't have time to setup support before we needed it so I can't give it a higher rating but I think it tends to be a bit slow unless you're a GCP enterprise support customer.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Having used Amazon Web Services SNS & SQS I can say that even if the latter may offer more features, Google Cloud Pub/Sub is easier to use. On the other hand, usage of SNS & SQS as well as documentation and troubleshooting is easier with the AWS solution. Since we are not using GCP only for Pub/Sub the choice depends on other variables.
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    Microsoft
    The reason Behind this is the cost, as Microsoft provides solutions and integrations of services cheaper than AWS.
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    Scalability
    Google
    You can just plug in consumers at will and it will respond, there's no need for further configuration or introducing new concepts. You have a queue, if it's slow, you plug in more consumers to process more messages: simple as that.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Increased Efficiency with reliable and Google managed services up all the time wit Disaster Recovery in place as well
    • Definitely Lower costs being a cloud based solution and easier to setup
    • Faster Project delivery and go to market plan for the business use cases basis this technology at the back end
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    Microsoft
    • Very valuable return on investment for IT capex committed to the deployment
    • Improvements in overall organisational efficiency and agility
    • Repositioning the organisation to become digitally transformed
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