G2 Vendor Directory

Ignition vs. EMQX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIgnition

by Inductive Automation

EMQX

by EMQ

Overall rating4.84.6
Review count6023
Ease of use8.89.3
Ease of setup9.39.3
Quality of support9.18.6
Meets requirements9.49.1
NPS89.09090981.818182
Small Business37.3%21.7%
Mid-Market33.9%39.1%
Enterprise28.8%39.1%
Total page views1,203182
Total LLM citations2,5242,616

Ignition

Ignition by Inductive Automation is a universal industrial automation software platform that enables your organization to connect, design, build, and deploy industrial applications at an enterprise scale. Serving as a central hub for Operational Technology (OT), Ignition unifies real-time data from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), databases, IIoT devices, and enterprise systems into a single, cohesive system of record.

Pros

    EMQX

    EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT Messaging Platform designed by EMQ Technologies. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining the best-in-class throughput and sub-millisecond latency. It boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100 million IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen and Ericsson.

    Pros