IBM Confluent vs. TIBCO Messaging

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.

Incentivized

Organization which uses TIBCO Business Works or TIBCO Business Process Management or TIBCO BPM Enterprise can make use of TIBCO Messaging as it works well with other TIBCO tools. Many TIBCO tools have TIBCO Messaging products bundled as a package along with other TIBCO tools. Use of dynamic topics and queues makes run time processing easier.

Incentivized

• Products work great.
• Training is available.
• Customer support is good.

Incentivized

• Tibco EMS performs very well, and it meets our stringent performance requirements for corporate messaging backbone.
• Tibco EMS scales well, and this is another of our stringent requirements.
• Tibco provides good support for the EMS product, and continues to improve it. This is important as we don't want to use something that does not keep up with the changes in the technology landscape.

Incentivized

• Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP

Incentivized

• In terms of TIBCO Messaging, it would nice to have a more out-of-the-box way of linking its objects (queues, topics) directly to those of other popular solutions like MQ or Kafka.
• Not being able to filter (that is, using selectors) through patterns/subtexts on the message body is missed on occasions.
• Given the current trends and state-of-art, lift & shift of on-premise EMS clusters to cloud architectures should be more directly attainable.

Incentivized

EMS is a solid system and I see no reason to abandon it, in fact I am eager to see what the next versions will offer and future road maps. Knowing we have support to help us in case of problems is invaluable, both in case of critical issues and to improve overall performance.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

We also use other messaging products: IBM MQ, especially for integration with other systems (server2server), which has been an industry standard for a long time, and Apache Kafka for cloud-native applications. EMS is a worse option compared to them, but it is still acceptable.

Incentivized

• It enables us to develop event driven application.
• It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
• It reduces latency of communication.

Incentivized

• Improved developer productivity as TIBCO Enterprise Message Service requires minimal coding
• Quicker time to market as the configuration / onboarding can be automated with this tool
• Ability to onboard more clients/consumers as the tool can handle large volumes seamless
• Improved visibility on the end to end process as the product provides monitoring by using JMS header information