Apache Web Server vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

Apache and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Apache is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.8, while Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. Apache holds a 10.7% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Apache Web Server

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle SOA Suite

Read 65 Oracle SOA Suite reviews

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880 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Apache Web Server and Oracle SOA Suite 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Web Server

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Apache Web Server is 10.7%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 4.1%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Saurav Kumar

Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India

Offers security features that are reliable

When it comes to Apache Web Server, I don't have any suggestions for improvement because we use it in the UAT environment. For production, my company mainly uses NGINX. There is no direct package provided by the product if I want to use WAF. In NGINX, NGINX Plus has the signature update capability, but in Apache, the same feature is not available, making it an area where improvements are required. If WAF can be introduced in Apache Web Server, it would be a good improvement so that its users can implement either the WAF module or ModSecurity, as they choose. For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users. Apache Web Server should provide users with the same capabilities offered under NGINX Management Suite with the help of a simple GUI so that our company doesn't have to do anything on the terminal while directly getting to use the user interface, which can help us with the configuration part.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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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

"Apache has proven to be incredibly reliable, and everything has operated smoothly without encountering any issues."

"The open-source nature is one of its most significant advantages."

"The most significant advantage is the ability to swiftly enable HTTPS services when my DNS is configured correctly."

"The product is very cheap and stable."

"The solution offers good security."

"It is more secure to use Apache and you will have fewer problems than other web services."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."

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"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."

"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."

"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."

"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."

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Cons

"The interface has room for improvement."

"A monitoring interface would be great for this product. The monitoring dashboards for Apache's models are not included in the basic installation. You can install the basic monitoring model, then connect this model to another monitoring system."

"It would be great if technical support for Apache were available in Iran. It is a very important need."

"The GUI for the less experienced users needs some improvement. For some companies, it is hard to configure it if they have not had any experience."

"The product's initial setup process could be easier for users."

"Adding a reverse proxy to Apache Web Server would be a significant improvement."

"Its stability could be better."

"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."

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"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."

"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

"Its function options can be improved."

"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no licensing cost for the product."

"It is an open-source solution."

"It is a free-of-cost solution."

"The apache software is free, open-source."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."

"The product is moderately priced."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

University

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Web Server?

The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Web Server?

The price of the product is an area handled by the procurement team in my company.

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What needs improvement with Apache Web Server?

There isn't a dedicated customer support available for Apache Web Server.

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What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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Also Known As

Apache HTTP Server

SOA Suite

Overview

The Apache HTTP Server Project was founded in 1995 by a group of webmasters, known as The Apache Group, with the aim of developing robust, richly-featured, freely-available and commercial-standard Web (HTTP) server source code. The result was Apache Web Server or Apache HTTP Server, which is an open-source public-domain web server.

This collaborative project has been enhanced ever since with contributions from the core development team and other volunteers situated all over the globe. Also, hundreds of users of this open-source web server have contributed code, ideas, and documentation. The project falls under The Apache Software Foundation, which manages many open-source projects.

Apache

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

Oracle

Sample Customers

Cisco, Intuit, General Electric, Adobe, VMware, PayPal, HP, EMC, eBay, Apple, SAP, Qualcomm, SanDisk, Allstate, FedEx

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

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