Mule ESB vs NGINX Plus comparison

Mule ESB

Read 46 Mule ESB reviews

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85% willing to recommend

NGINX Plus

Read 28 NGINX Plus reviews

6,091 Views
4,823 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Mule ESB

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)

NGINX Plus

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (2nd), Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (5th)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the market share of Mule ESB is 26.5% and it increased by 15.9% compared to the previous year. The market share of NGINX Plus is 0.9% and it increased by 30.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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Application Infrastructure

10.9%

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

9.8%

Featured Reviews

Santosh Solapurkar

Manager at Deloitte

Jun 8, 2022

Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable

We use Mule ESB for integrating with third-party vendors. Mule ESB bridge between internal systems and third-party systems. Additionally, we use it for enterprise, web, and APIs services The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and…

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AANKITGUPTAA

Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

Oct 18, 2022

Very high-performance load balancers on HTTP; supports numerous protocols for the reverse proxy

The load balancer which is based on NGINX is used to protect our servers. The product works as a reverse proxy and we use some modes and smart security modules of NGINX for securing the web application as a web module The solution has provided us with a resilient IT infrastructure and it can also…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Scalability and load balancing."

"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."

"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."

"Mule Expression Language"

"I like that it's user-friendly. Compared to other ESBs, I find it easier to use. I like it better than other ESBs. I like the connectors, which make calling the APIs through the routers easier."

"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 powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."

"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."

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"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."

"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."

"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."

"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."

"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."

"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."

"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."

"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."

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Cons

"The initial setup is not easy."

"The current version will not be supported for much longer."

"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."

"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."

"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."

"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."

"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."

"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."

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"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."

"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."

"The center management system could be improved."

"The user interface could be improved."

"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."

"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."

"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."

"The scalability could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."

"I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."

"Regarding licensing and pricing, I find it somewhat flexible. They are more flexible with larger customers compared to small and medium ones, as their licensing model depends on ports and other factors. Large customers benefit from more flexibility in implementation and renewal compared to smaller ones."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

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"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."

"The solution is free, but you can spend a lot of money with a complex solution."

"The cost is reasonable."

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."

"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."

"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."

"You pay for each feature that you want."

"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Comms Service Provider

Government

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company

I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...

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IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?

Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...

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What do you like most about Mule ESB?

The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.

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Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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What do you like most about NGINX Plus?

It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free. There's also NGINX Plus, which is a paid version with additional features.

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Overview

For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

Sample Customers

Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA

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