We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."
"The solution is robust."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"DataPower isn't the most user-friendly tool. It is not an easy tool to use. Some things could use better wizards to guide you through processes."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"Its support services could be better."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 8th in API Management with 27 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Traefik Enterprise. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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