We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
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"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The product is resilient."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"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 should have some amount of logging."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"Community editions need more attention."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"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 current version will not be supported for much longer."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The scalability could be improved."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Red Hat Fuse, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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