We performed a comparison between WebLogic Suite and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"The feature that I have found to be the most valuable is the ease of deployment."
"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."
"The solution is useful for centralizing data."
"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."
"WebLogic Suite is scalable."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed at which it compiles and sends the dynamic cache."
"Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system."
"The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product."
"Lacking a solution for smaller applications."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"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 rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"The solution can be quicker."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our WebLogic Suite vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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