Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs HAProxy comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
14th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HAProxy
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Service Mesh (2nd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the market share of Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is 1.3% and it increased by 21.6% compared to the previous year. The market share of HAProxy is 15.1% and it increased by 9.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
Unique Categories:
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Service Mesh
9.3%
 

Featured Reviews

AnisKazi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 28, 2022
Cost-effective but lacking features and integration
I mainly use Load Balancer ADC as a WAF and a load balancer Load Balancer ADC could be improved by adding integration with Oracle products. In the next release, Load Balancer ADC should include form integration, a load balancer with Oracle, and URL rewriting. I've been using Barracuda Load…
Tomislav Horvatović - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 18, 2023
A versatile tool for load balancing and traffic management in different environments
The main use cases are for load balancing and limiting traffic. It is utilized as a front-end server for balancing HTTP traffic, as well as for balancing traffic between application servers and database servers like Redis and Elasticsearch. HAProxy is employed for both HTTP and TCP load balancing…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it."
"The price is very good, and it's not very expensive."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"Stability is number one."
"​​Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"​It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
 

Cons

"The quality of the solution's performance could be improved."
"Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"Documentation could be improved."
"If nbproc = 2, you will have two processes of HAProxy running. However, the stats of HAProxy will not be aggregated, meaning you don't really know the collective status in a single point of view."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"The configuration should be more friendly, perhaps with a Web interface. For example, I work with the ClusterControl product for Severalnines, and we have a Web interface to deploy the HAProxy load-balancer."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Load Balancer ADC is cost-effective and is about half the price of F5."
"Test/lab virtual machines can be installed without a licence. They can't be used for performance testing but otherwise behave like production nodes."
"HAProxy is free software. There are optional paid products (support/appliances)."
"The product is open source."
"The price is well worth it. HAProxy Enterprise Edition paid for itself within months, simply due to the resiliency it brings. It was a bit more expensive than we were originally interested in paying, but we are thankful we chose to go with HAProxy."
"The only cost is for the image manager, who is responsible for uploading the image, and that is trivial."
"We use NGINX as well. However, because the health checks are a paid feature, I like to avoid it whenever possible​."
"The licensing fee for the solution is $690 per unit annually."
"It is free of cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Educational Organization
9%
Retailer
7%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Load Balancer ADC?
The price is very good, and it's not very expensive.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Load Balancer ADC?
The price of the solution is reasonable. It costs approximately 200 million. So the price is very good, and it's not very expensive, because it's just basic WAF, but the Load Balancer is good.
What needs improvement with Barracuda Load Balancer ADC?
The quality of the solution's performance could be improved. For example, the solution's performance is high because of CPU usage when the application is in refresh mode for more than 30 seconds. A...
Do you recommend HAProxy?
I do recommend HAProxy for more simple applications or for companies with a low budget, since HAProxy is a free, open-source product. HAProxy is also a good choice for someone looking for a stable ...
What do you like most about HAProxy?
The solution is effective in managing our traffic.
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Load Balancer
HAProxy Community Edition, HAProxy Enterprise Edition, HAPEE
 

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