We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"What I like most is the stability."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The solution is robust."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"It is a costly product."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"Its support services could be better."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway and SwaggerHub. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Tyk report.
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