IBM MQ vs. RabbitMQ

Suited:

• As we have critical data such as payments which needs to be managed across a number of platforms.
• MQ ensures guaranteed delivery of this data.
• Setting up a new application to use MQ is a relatively simple process.
• To track data both internally and externally you can set MQ up to send back acknowledgement . Very useful if one party say they have not received some data.

Not suited.

• If an application has a requirement to get information from a database without any concerns of losing data . Using JDBC connecting directly to the database can reduces the number of jumps the application needs to make to get to the database.

• If an application wants to store information and then send as a large batch file it is not recommended to use MQ. MQ applications should be used for data which needs to be sent immediately. MFT (MQ file transfer) however can utilise MQ for file transfers

Incentivized

If you are looking for a message broker, RabbitMQ is pretty good. Its API lets you create tons of queues on demand and publish to all of them at once, while you can have 10+ consumers on each queue. It also does a good job of absorbing bursts of traffic. We've seen our queues get backed up to 3 million messages with no problem. In the modern era of GDPR, you may run into problems with keeping messages encrypted out of the box in-flight and at-rest with RabbitMQ. Not saying it's impossible, but it's tough to set up and you have to pay a high overload.

Incentivized

• The documentation is very clear,It is understandable and the support helps to configure it in the best way.
• Server guidelines make it possible to get the most out of work management. It's broad, we can work with different operating systems, I really recommend using linux.
• It is highly compatible with systems, brockers, applications, and data accumulation programs, it is possible to configure everything so that after the installation of programs, they can communicate with each other and then throw data to an external program that accumulates it and represents in clear details of steps to follow and make business decisions.

Incentivized

• What RabbitMQ does well is what it's advertised to do. It is good at providing lots of high volume, high availability queue. We've seen it handle upwards of 10 million messages in its queues, spread out over 200 queues before its publish/consume rates dipped. So yeah, it can definitely handle a lot of messages and a lot of queues. Depending on the size of the machine RabbitMQ is running on, I'm sure it can handle more.
• Decent number of plugins! Want a plugin that gives you an interface to view all the queues and see their publish/consume rates? Yes, there's one for that. Want a plugin to "shovel" messages from one queue to another in an emergency? Check. Want a plugin that does extra logging for all the messages received? Got you covered!
• Lots of configuration possibilities. We've tuned over 100 settings over the past year to get the performance and reliability just right. This could be a downside though--it's pretty confusing and some settings were hard to understand.

Incentivized

• I can only speak wonders about the program; I think it is a program with enough serious track record to meet the company's expectations. However, it should be noted that I could suggest that promotional packages be made from time to time for those of us who are already clients of more than one year.
• In every sense, the program fulfills what it promises, which is to generate a good connection and cohesion of programs to be able to make commitments between them.

Incentivized

• It breaks communication if we don't acknowledge early. In some cases our work items are time consuming that will take a time and in that scenario we are getting errors that RabbitMQ broke the channel. It will be good if RabbitMQ provides two acknowledgements, one is for that it has been received at client side and second ack is client is completed the processing part.

Incentivized

I give it a nine because it has significantly improved my team's data reliability and operational efficiency. Its great security features give us peace of mind, knowing our sensitive data is well protected. While the setup might initially be complex, I believe the long-term benefits far outweigh this hurdle.

Incentivized

RabbitMQ is very usable if you are a programmer or DevOps engineer. You can setup and configure a messaging system without any programmatic knowledge either through an admin console plugin or through a command-line interface. It's very easy to spin up additional consumers when volume is heavy and it's very easy to manage those consumers either through automated scripting or through their admin console. Because it's language agnostic it integrates with any system supporting AMQP.

Incentivized

As I have said before, the program is stable; I think that is the great reason why it has been maintained for years and days in the company; despite the hard use that we have given it, it has behaved well during both day and night shifts.

Incentivized

The IBM Support team has offered unmatched insight. Their personnel helped us actualize several things that seemed impossible before. You see, previously we would develop a software solution, but it would take months before rolling it out mostly because we had further build additional specific interfaces. The support team suggested we procure App Connect alongside MQ. Right now, we just hop into the IBM MQ platform, connect the software with AppConnect, and a few modifications are done, then it's ready within a few days.

Incentivized

I gave it a 10 but we do not have a support contract with any company for RabbitMQ so there is no official support in that regard. However, there is a community and questions asked on StackOverflow or any other major question and answer site will usually get a response.

Incentivized

Kafka is renowned for its impressive throughput, fault tolerance, and real-time data streaming capabilities. Nonetheless, IBM MQ remains the preferred choice due to its unwavering commitment to guaranteed delivery and exceptional reliability. Fault-Tolerant Architectures of IBM MQ which allows active-standby queue managers, to build fault-tolerant architectures that ensure continuity of service in the event of hardware or software failures.

Incentivized

It is very easy to use as it has a simple function to connect and use RabbitMQ. It is having Fast Learning curve, Any newbies can learn it in a week or month. It is having proper documentation, we are able to find all the details about its functionality and usage of it. The Features of RabbitMQ are providing are matching with our business requirements.

Incentivized

• Positive- Message Reliability and Reduced downtime, increases the ROI many times.
• Positive- Increased stability and enhanced customer experience
• Negative- cost is very high - Both licensing and integration cost
• Negative- Learning and training cost of IBM MQ is high as its complex to use and integrate

Incentivized

• Earlier we had a problem with missing work items with our own implementation but later using RabbitMQ is solved a problem. Now our job processing mechanism is highly reliable.
• We also had a problem with scaling, processing 1k work items per second. RabbitMQ helped us to scale well with increasing work items.

Incentivized