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)."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."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"Mule Expression Language"
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"The product is resilient."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
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"This solution has everything."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."
"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"Community editions need more attention."
"The stability could be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 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, Red Hat Fuse and webMethods Integration Server, 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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