We performed a comparison between WebLogic Suite and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."
"The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent."
"The solution is useful for centralizing data."
"This is a robust solution."
"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."
"What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite. I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster. Oracle also provides excellent technical support."
"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed at which it compiles and sends the dynamic cache."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system."
"The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"I think the support could be much better."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"The support is not good."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
"The solution can be quicker."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our WebLogic Suite vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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