We performed a comparison between IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB, and Oracle Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)."It has the ability to be deployed without rewriting the code."
"IBM Integration Bus has been effective in facilitating our messaging and service-oriented architecture (SOA) or bus architecture. So, we're already utilizing it to transform the data from the source it's sending. It converts the data from the format the source sends it into the format the destination system requires. So we are transforming the messages, which are required by the destination system; that's the one way."
"I recommend it for large enterprises but only for specific use cases. You need to have a relatively mature integration practice in your organization to leverage its capabilities fully."
"The integration with other tools is excellent. It integrates well with batch issues."
"Easy to understand documentation with a huge list of examples and tutorials."
"It makes the communication between multiple and heterogeneous applications so easy. We can bring together different messages and applications from different platforms and connect them through IBM Integration Bus."
"The message queue feature is very valuable."
"What I like best are the monitoring features."
"The transformation and the data format are the features that I like the most."
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"Scalability and load balancing."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."
"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."
"With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the security feature."
"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation."
"This product is not complicated and very easy to learn."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It's very easy to use. It's no code/low code. Oracle Middleware products are also rich in adapters."
"It is stable."
"There are always continuous improvements that are happening."
"It was very good at supporting high transactions, up to 300 transactions per second."
"Its licensing or subscription model should be improved for more flexible adoption. There should also be more ease of use."
"The cloud deployment of the IBM Integration Bus should be made easier."
"Technical support is something that should be better."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"IBM does not support orchestration, which is how they designed it, and other BPM tools in the market support orchestration. If they merged the BPM capability into this product, then it would be a better solution."
"The memory footprint should be minimized."
"I would like for them to make the training much easier."
"Its integration with Cloud Pak components could be better."
"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."
"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."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."
"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."
"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."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"The interface console is very slow. Even in production, we need to increase the RAM or CPU. And even after that, the performance is still not good in production."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"What needs improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the connectivity between adapters such as the Salesforce adapter and database adapters. The limited number of adapters compatible with Oracle Service Bus makes you want to switch to a different solution."
"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity."
"There are times when I select components in composite and they do not appear, and I cannot figure out why."
"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."
"There is significant room for improvement in the monitoring capabilities."
"If they can containerize this, that would be nice. If they can provide docker images and offer support for those containers, that would be great."