We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"It is a scalable solution."
"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"I like that it is very stable, and we never experience any downtime."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"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."
"It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"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 architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"Its support services could be better."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"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."
"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."
"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."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"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."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"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."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 26 reviews while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM Integration Bus and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Red Hat Fuse and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Mule ESB report.
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