We performed a comparison between Anypoint MQ and Apache Kafka based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is scalable, and its performance is quite good."
"The use of ACK is valuable."
"It's easy to use and comes as a bundle package with the Anypoint Platform, removing the need for any complex setup."
"The most valuable feature of Anypoint MQ is it comes with MuleSoft so we don't have to maintain separate components."
"Good interface, simple to use and stable."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment is a cakewalk."
"We use simple queues and exchanges to route messages to multiple queues. The publish/subscribe model is also helpful."
"The solution is very scalable with solid performance and the capability of extending it using any custom Java in case you don't have anything out of the box. MDP is strong. It is good compared to other products regarding its capabilities in managing or orchestrating the issue load."
"Its availability is brilliant."
"Scalability is very good."
"Kafka, as compared with other messaging system options, is great for large scale message processing applications. It offers high throughput with built-in fault-tolerance and replication."
"I like the performance and reliability of Kafka. I needed a data streaming buffer that could handle thousands of messages per second with at least one processing point for an analytics pipeline. Kafka fits this requirement very well."
"It is the performance that is really meaningful."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Kafka is Kafka Connect."
"It eases our current data flow and framework."
"Excellent speeds for publishing messages faster."
"Anypoint MQ could improve the user interface."
"Information on monitoring could be improved."
"When we are integrating with other applications, readily available connectors make it easy. However, when it comes to external applications, connectivity isn't as straightforward."
"The solution is very costly. The solution should provide a package with fewer capabilities at a lower price for specific companies that don’t have a big IT budget. Not every customer requires all the capabilities of the software. It will be a good fit in the market, and they will easily sell it more."
"There are so many solutions like this, but this is not as mature as those products. The other MQ products have the capability of reprocessing and maintaining the persistence of the data. They can handle large volumes and large messages, but Anypoint MQ doesn't have those capabilities."
"The solution's licensing model is expensive and could be improved."
"The product does not provide a priority level for the message."
"It's extremely expensive to change things in Anypoint MQ. There's also this issue of slow output of messages, and that needs to be improved."
"Stability of the API and the technical support could be improved."
"One of the things I am mostly looking for is that once the message is picked up from Kafka, it should not be visible or able to be consumed by other applications, or something along those lines. That feature is not present, but it is not a limitation or anything of the sort; rather, it is a desirable feature. The next release should include a feature that prevents messages from being consumed by other applications once they are picked up by Kafka."
"An area for improvement would be growth."
"Kafka 2.0 has been released for over a month, and I wanted to try out the new features. However, the configuration is a little bit complicated: Kafka Broker, Kafka Manager, ZooKeeper Servers, etc."
"More Windows support, I believe, is one area where it can improve."
"While the solution scales well and easily, you need to understand your future needs and prep for the peaks."
"As an open-source project, Kafka is still fairly young and has not yet built out the stability and features that other open-source projects have acquired over the many years. If done correctly, Kafka can also take over the stream-processing space that technologies such as Apache Storm cover."
"Apache Kafka has performance issues that cause it to lag."
Anypoint MQ is ranked 7th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 10 reviews while Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 78 reviews. Anypoint MQ is rated 7.0, while Apache Kafka is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anypoint MQ writes "Useful for asynchronous messaging, but it lacks features, and the storage is limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Real-time processing and reliable for data integrity". Anypoint MQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS, VMware Tanzu Data Services, IBM MQ and PubSub+ Event Broker, whereas Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, PubSub+ Event Broker and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our Anypoint MQ vs. Apache Kafka report.
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