[jtud] Press Release - Sonic tops IBM WebSphereMQ in messaging benchmarks
- From: "Karl Dallas" <karldallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:07:55 -0000
SONIC TOPS IBM WEBSPHEREMQ - FORMERLY MQSERIES - IN MESSAGING BENCHMARKS
SonicMQ 4.0 2 16 times faster than WebSphereMQ 5.2
LONDON, 19 February 2002 SonicMQ 4.0, the award-winning Internet
middleware from Progress subsidiary Sonic Software, dramatically
outperformed IBM WebSphereMQ (formerly MQSeries) 5.2 in a series of
independently performed messaging benchmark tests. SonicMQ is
consistently faster in 40 different business messaging test
configurations, with throughputs that are 100 - 1500 percent faster than
those of WebSphereMQ.
SonicMQ 4.0 achieved overwhelmingly higher message rates for both topics
and queues. The comprehensive message performance comparison included
point-to-point and publish/subscribe domains from light to very heavy
message loads. The tests compared two implementations of the Java
Message Service (JMS) API, which allows software applications to create,
send, receive and read messages between applications in a reliable,
secure fashion throughout the extended enterprise.
These comparative third party benchmark tests, conducted by Jahming
Technologies, demonstrate that SonicMQ 4.0 outperformed WebSphereMQ 5.2
in all areas of testing:
Point-to-point testing - in one-to-one message tests, SonicMQ 4.0
produced throughputs of up to four times that of WebSphereMQ. In tests
where many messages were sent, SonicMQ broker was 2.6 to 4.4 times
faster than the WebSphereMQ broker.
Durable publish/subscribe testing - the report concluded, it is apparent
that SonicMQ far outperforms (WebSphereMQ) here. At light loads, Sonic
outpaced IBM by a 2-1 margin. That gap widened to 6 times the throughput
under medium load testing. SonicMQ broker easily handled a high-volume
of activity (1000 connections and 500 topics), while WebSphereMQ broker
failed to successfully complete the test.
Non-durable publish/subscribe testing - the report showed a dramatic
throughput difference between the two JMS brokers being compared. For
both one-to-one and few-to-many tests, SonicMQ yielded message rates
significantly faster than WebSphereMQ. In one test, the SonicMQ broker
achieved throughputs 16 times faster than those of the WebSphereMQ
broker. Complete results and analysis are available on Sonic Software's
Web site at http://sonicsoftware.com/products/how_to_benchmark.htm.
Although different JMS providers conform to and implement the JMS API
specification, the performance achievable with these providers vary
significantly under many test configurations, said Justine Hebert,
principal analyst for Jahming Technologies. This competitive testing
project illustrates a variety of high-volume messaging business
scenarios and the widely differing message rates produced by 2 different
providers - SonicMQ outperformed WebSphereMQ in every tested scenario.
This benchmarking report clearly demonstrates that SonicMQ 4.0 delivers
information - in whatever volume an enterprise needs - faster and more
reliably than the competition, said Danny Goodall, Marketing Director
Sonic Products at Progress EMEA. Users of MQSeries can benefit from the
performance enhancements offered by SonicMQ by using our SonicMQ bridge
to MQSeries.
About Jahming Technologies Jahming provides application performance
monitoring and metering software and services. Its clients include
software and hardware vendors in the Access Control and Entitlement
market, Telecommunications, High Availability Computing, Enterprise
Communication and Grid Computing industries. For more information on the
services provided by Jahming, or its flagship product, Perf4J, see
www.jahming.com.
SONIC SOFTWARE AND MARKET GROWTH
Sonic Software has experienced tremendous growth over the last year, as
revenues from SonicMQ, Sonics award-winning messaging platform, grew
three-fold in the past year and the company released SonicXQ v.1.0, an
intelligent XML backbone for Web services implementations.
Market Demand for Message Oriented Middleware According to IDCs
Message-Oriented Middleware Market Forecast and Analysis, 20012005
report (IDC #24852, June 2001), the market for MOM continues to grow up
28% between 1999 and 2000, with continuing growth through 20042005, when
IDC forecasts that the MOM market will top off at $741 million.
Several factors will contribute to the overall health of the MOM market
over the forecast period, including:
* The need exists for MOM to serve as an important foundation for
creating flexible ebusiness platforms.
* MOM products are able to serve as a framework for adding critical
ebusiness services as needed (incrementally or otherwise) within an
organisation.
* The store-and-forward capabilities of MOM are especially suitable for
the wireless market. Products with guaranteed, once-and-once only
delivery mechanisms should do extremely well as infrastructure for
wireless and mobile-enabled applications.
* MOM is a key enabling technology for both business-to-business (B2B)
and business-to-consumer (B2C) initiatives, as MOM inherently supports
an event-driven mode of processing. ? MOM products will continue to be
increasingly bundled and sold as part of overall applications server or
businessware integration solutions.
* Next-generation MOM products must accommodate loosely coupled systems,
standards-based architectures, and Internet technologies in a seamless,
easy-to-implement fashion.
Market research firm Gartner, Inc. predicts that by the second half of
2002, 75 percent of companies with greater than $100 million in revenue
will interface periodically with web services. Support for
service-oriented architectures puts Sonic Software at the forefront of
messaging technology. Messaging is the best foundation for creating
distributed services by connecting loosely coupled applications both
within the firewall and across the extended enterprise.
About Progress Software
Progress Software is a global supplier of software technology and
services for developing, deploying, integrating and managing e-business
solutions. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products that
includes application development tools, application servers, the leading
e-business messaging server SonicMQ, and the industry's most widely
used, lowest-cost-of-ownership embedded database.
Progress Software's partners include more than 2000 independent software
vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) who supply
annually over $5 billion in Progress-based applications and related
services. Over 40,000 organisations across more than 100 countries -
including 70% of the Fortune 100 - rely on Progress-based applications.
The Progress Company, and Sonic Software are operating companies of
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS). Sonic Software designs and
develops the Sonic range of products in the USA. In Europe, they are
distributed by Progress Software. Progress Software Corporation is
headquartered in Bedford, Mass., and can be reached in the UK at 01753
216300 or on the web at www.progress.com
SonicMQ, SonicXQ, Dynamic Routing Architecture and the Sonic Software
logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Software
Corporation in the United States and other countries. Java and all
Java-related marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc in the United States and other countries. Any other
trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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