Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs. TIBCO Messaging

Using Google Cloud Pub/Sub will mainly depend on the cloud platform used. Our client didn't choose GCP for Google Cloud Pub/Sub, if we went with AWS we would be using SNS/SQS (obviously). However, Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a better solution in the GCP services compared to self-managed solutions such as RabbitMQ for instance (it is managed by GCP and integrates with GCP solutions).

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

• A hands-off approach to publishing messages and subscribing to topics.
• Easy to use APIs.
• Useful, simple UI on cloud console to send messages for debugging, etc.

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

• It is limited to work with the same platform but with different datasets at the same time, you must request a prior security authentication.
• It can sometimes lead to unexpected charges, as Pub/Sub will automatically keep on retrying messages continuously, even if failures are due to permanent code-level issues.
• Message re-deliveries don't apply for ingested services like with Python based client. Push messages tried to be delivered immediately and if your service is busy dealing with some other task, it won't be done OR goes into a queue

Incentivized

• A bit of lag time between data sync and the data reaching the server for some of our field sites.
• It still seems like a niche product for me with little community support. I didn't know about it before working for a company that deployed it.
• Certain functionality is too complex to setup as compared to other products on the market.

Incentivized

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.

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

It has many libraries in many languages, google provides either good guides or they're AI generated code libraries that are easy to understand. It has very good observability too.

I have never faced a single problem in 4 years.

It's very fast, can be even better if you use protobuf.

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.

Incentivized

• Easy to setup Publisher, Subscribers and Message Queue service
• More Reliable and Easy Scalable with Google Managed services
• Easily integrated with most of the data sources we typically use for Data Storage and Analysis
• 10k Topics is a good enough number to build and deliver the business use cases
• Asynchronous and fallback mechanisms are great to ensure parallel delivery of the messages

Incentivized

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 easy to use and understand.

Incentivized

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.

• Pub/Sub has helped avoid data loss improving our customer value prop.
• Pub/Sub has reduced development time that would otherwise be needed to build a highly scalable queue.

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