We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and NGINX Plus 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."Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"The solution is robust."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"The product is resilient."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"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."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"It is a costly product."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little 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."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"Its support services could be better."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"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."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The user interface could be improved."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM WebSphere Application Server, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Alteon. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. NGINX Plus report.
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