We performed a comparison between Apache Web Server, Oracle SOA Suite, and WebLogic Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The most significant advantage is the ability to swiftly enable HTTPS services when my DNS is configured correctly."
"The solution's most valuable feature is reporting."
"Apache Web Server is free of cost."
"The open-source nature is one of its most significant advantages."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"Apache has proven to be incredibly reliable, and everything has operated smoothly without encountering any issues."
"It is scalable."
"The control panel is very easy to navigate. It's similar to most hosting platforms, so it's user-friendly. Once you get used to it, managing your hosting becomes easy, too."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite. I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster. Oracle also provides excellent technical support."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"The solution is useful for centralizing data."
"The program is scalable."
"This is a robust solution."
"So far, for us, everything is okay."
"Things change very fast. We're always on the lookout for better approaches and tools. If the solution falls behind, we may have to switch."
"There is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration."
"Its stability could be better."
"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."
"It would be great if technical support for Apache were available in Iran. It is a very important need."
"A monitoring interface would be great for this product. The monitoring dashboards for Apache's models are not included in the basic installation. You can install the basic monitoring model, then connect this model to another monitoring system."
"In future releases, I would like to see better server optimization."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."
"Support could be better. The expertise when we have some Oracle WebLogic issues and challenges is not there. The issues are not being addressed in time. This really needs to be improved going forward."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."
"I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."
