We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The setup is straightforward."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"For complex cases, we employ the SSLi engine, whereas for simpler ones like healthcare or response data, such as EDI 270 or 271. We prefer to use an external XRT engine instead of handling it within the ESB for ease of management."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."
"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."
"The product’s most valuable feature is stability."
"The technology is really easy to learn."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."
"The solution is very stable."
"TIBCO has the platform in terms of speed and ease of use."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"The stability could be improved."
"We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"Community editions need more attention."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Migration to cloud solutions or products should be made convenient, transparent, and easily understandable."
"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."
"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."
"The solution is very expensive when you use multiple components, it would b better if this could be reduced."
"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."
"We'd like to see improvements in product support."
"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."
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Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is ranked 9th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 12 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus writes "A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM WebSphere Message Broker, whereas TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus report.
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