We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."
"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."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"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 most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"The product is resilient."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"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."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"Community editions need more attention."
"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."
"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"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."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 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, Red Hat Fuse and webMethods Integration Server, 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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