Apache Kafka vs. TIBCO Messaging

Apache Kafka

137 Reviews and Ratings

TIBCO Messaging

78 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache Kafka	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Apache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. The Kafka event streaming platform is used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.	N/A
TIBCO Messaging	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	TIBCO offers high-performance messaging technology, and gives customers flexibility and unique choice between Commercial and Open-source messaging solutions. TIBCO Messaging is a comprehensive messaging portfolio available to meet a wide variety of use cases and deployment models.	N/A

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Key User Insights
	Apache Kafka	TIBCO Messaging
Considered Both Products	Apache Verified User Chose Apache Kafka Kafka is not a real messaging broker implementation as RabbitMQ or TIBCO EMS/JMS are. Although it can be used as messaging, we like the idea behind the Kafka (data isn't "passing by," instead it remains centra, so the client can revisit the data if necessary). This also … Incentivized Helpful?	TIBCO Software Inc. Verified User Chose TIBCO Messaging 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose TIBCO Messaging TIBCO is an alternate method but does not meet all the needs of cloud -native system. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TIBCO Messaging We chose TIBCO Messaging not just for its performance but because it looked like the natural way to pave our existing TIBCO Integration architecture. Setting up TIBCO EMS servers and objects seems more straightforward than with most of competitors. It is easy to configure and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TIBCO Messaging IBM MQ was the old product we used, and we migrated from it to TIBCO EMS. We use also RabbitMQ for our light-weight IPC scenarios and Kafka for our data stream use cases. They 3 compose our complete messaging and streaming solution. Incentivized Helpful? Hugo Romani Cortes Atos - Middleware Architect in Engineering at Amadeus IT Group (Information Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose TIBCO Messaging TIBCO Enterprise Message Service was selected because of the contract with TIBCO. We generally see company buying other TIBCO products such as TIBCO BusinessWorks and then TIBCO offers some discount on their "minor" products. If I would compare technical capabilities of EMS … Incentivized Helpful? Salah BENAMIRA Consultant ESB \| API Management in Engineering at Micropole (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose TIBCO Messaging We selected TIBCO EMS because we selected TIBCO BW as an ESB. TIBCO EMS must be installed in the TIBCO BW stack. I prefer TIBCO EMS because it implements very powerful functionality like bridges and routing. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Apache Kafka	TIBCO Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (19 ratings)	7.6 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)