IBM MQ
IBM MQ is messaging middleware that simplifies and accelerates the integration of diverse applications and data across multiple platforms.
Market Share of IBM MQ
Current Customer(s)
4208
Market Share (Est.)
5.86%
Ranking
#4
Top Competitors and Alternatives of IBM MQ
The top three of IBM MQ’s competitors in the Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing category are Apache Kafka with 39.28%, RabbitMQ with 28.25%, Realtime Framework with 5.99% market share.
| Technology | Domains | Market Share (Est.) | Versus page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Kafka | 28198 | 39.28% | IBM MQ vs Apache Kafka |
| RabbitMQ | 20278 | 28.25% | IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ |
| Realtime Framework | 4299 | 5.99% | IBM MQ vs Realtime Framework |
| Apache ActiveMQ | 4156 | 5.79% | IBM MQ vs Apache ActiveMQ |
| Microsoft Azure Service Bus | 3325 | 4.63% | IBM MQ vs Microsoft Azure Service Bus |
| Google Cloud Messaging | 2837 | 3.95% | IBM MQ vs Google Cloud Messaging |
| Ably Realtime | 1038 | 1.45% | IBM MQ vs Ably Realtime |
| ZeroMQ | 968 | 1.35% | IBM MQ vs ZeroMQ |
| NServiceBus | 773 | 1.08% | IBM MQ vs NServiceBus |
| Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) | 383 | 0.53% | IBM MQ vs Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) |
| Gearman | 373 | 0.52% | IBM MQ vs Gearman |
| Hornetq | 260 | 0.36% | IBM MQ vs Hornetq |
| Eclipse Paho | 177 | 0.25% | IBM MQ vs Eclipse Paho |
| NATS | 175 | 0.24% | IBM MQ vs NATS |
| CloudAMQP | 111 | 0.15% | IBM MQ vs CloudAMQP |
| NSQ | 61 | 0.08% | IBM MQ vs NSQ |
| Apache Qpid | 57 | 0.08% | IBM MQ vs Apache Qpid |
| Iron.io | 47 | 0.07% | IBM MQ vs Iron.io |
| Sidekiq Pro | 13 | 0.02% | IBM MQ vs Sidekiq Pro |
| CloudKarafka | 13 | 0.02% | IBM MQ vs CloudKarafka |
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Top Competitors and Alternatives of IBM MQ
The top three of IBM MQ’s competitors in the Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing category are Apache Kafka with 39.28%, RabbitMQ with 28.25%, Realtime Framework with 5.99% market share.
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Customers of IBM MQ
Around the world in 2026, over 4159 companies have started using IBM MQ as Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing tool.
| Customers | Employee Range | City | Region | Country | Social Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie Group | 10,000+ | Sydney | New South Wales | Australia |     |
| Xerox | 10,000+ | Norwalk | Connecticut | United States | |
| Freudenberg | 10,000+ | Weinheim | Baden-Wuerttemberg | Germany | |
| Norfolk Southern | 10,000+ | Atlanta | Georgia | United States | |
| BNP Paribas Personal Finance | 10,000+ | Paris | Ile-de-France | France | |
| ManpowerGroup | 10,000+ | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | |
| Polaris Inc. | 10,000+ | Medina | Minnesota | United States | |
| NN Group | 10,000+ | The Hague | South Holland | Netherlands | |
| HealthPartners | 10,000+ | Bloomington | Minnesota | United States | |
| Crédit Mutuel | 10,000+ | Paris | Ile-de-France | France | |
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IBM MQ Customers by Products and Services
The top three products and services offering customers that use IBM MQ for Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing are Asset Management (250), Wealth Management (244), Insurance (243).
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IBM MQ Customers by Employee Size
The majority of IBM MQ's customers for the queueing-messaging-and-background-processing category fall in the company size of 10,000+ employees (1080 companies), 1,000 - 4,999 employees (831 companies), 100 - 249 employees (609 companies).
Employee Size
IBM MQ Customers by Geography
The top three geographies of IBM MQ for queueing-messaging-and-background-processing are the United States with 1602(55.05%), United Kingdom with 256(8.80%), India with 207(7.11%) customers respectively.
Customers
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Who are the top IBM MQ competitors?
IBM MQ’s Top competitors in the queueing-messaging-and-background-processing category are Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Realtime Framework. You can view a full list of IBM MQ competitors here. 6sense uses advanced data mining and AI algorithms to track customers and competitors of IBM MQ and 40,000 other technologies on the internet. You can also compare IBM MQ and its feature with top competitors here : IBM MQ vs Apache Kafka IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ IBM MQ vs Realtime Framework.
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