We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus and Mule ESB based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions receive high marks from reviewers. IBM Integration Bus has a slight advantage over Mule ESB due to its flexibility and user-friendly interface.
"It has the ability to be deployed without rewriting the code."
"The message queue feature is very valuable."
"Seamlessly integrates your different applications."
"Easy to understand documentation with a huge list of examples and tutorials."
"One of the most valuable features is App Connect Enterprise makes it possible to deploy it in the OpenShift cluster, which is very good. Overall the solution is very flexible."
"This solution is very reliable and it is easy to learn."
"I consider the solution to be one of the most stable in the market."
"It's easy to develop things, and it's easy to handle."
"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"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."
"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"Sometimes migration takes too long."
"The password settings need improvement."
"They should add connectors to banking applications and other specific industries."
"We have to stop the integration server to start the debugging process."
"IBM could improve its connectivity."
"The memory footprint should be minimized."
"IBM does not support orchestration, which is how they designed it, and other BPM tools in the market support orchestration. If they merged the BPM capability into this product, then it would be a better solution."
"I don't mind the pricing."
"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."
"The payment system needs improvement."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"One area that could be improved is the way that policies are propagated when APIs are moved from one environment to another. It's an issue, but when you develop and test the rest APIs in a lower environment and need to move them, there's a propagation process. This process moves certain aspects of the APIs, like the basic features. But when we move them, the policies don't always move with them. The policies should be able to move so we don't have to redo them manually. There are some APIs we use, but it's a bit tedious."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
IBM Integration Bus is ranked 1st in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 63 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM Integration Bus is rated 8.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Integration Bus writes "Scalable solution with efficient integration features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM Integration Bus is most compared with IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus, webMethods Integration Server, IBM DataPower Gateway and Red Hat Fuse, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server, Red Hat Fuse and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our IBM Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB report.
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