We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"This solution has everything."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS 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."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
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"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."
"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"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."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"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."
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, 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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