Azul Zulu vs NGINX Plus comparison

Azul Systems and F5 are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Azul Systems is ranked #11, while F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. Azul Systems holds a 6.2% mindshare in AIS, compared to F5’s 11.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Azul Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of F5 users who would recommend it.

Azul Zulu

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100% willing to recommend

NGINX Plus

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92% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Azul Zulu

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Azul Zulu is 6.2%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 11.5%, down from 12.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user389799

Artificial Intelligence Professor at a university with 51-200 employees

Mar 1, 2016

It is based on OpenJDK so you obtain practically the same performance compared to Hotspot.

I've been using Zulu on Windows and OSX, and although it has many other features, I can mention 3:- It is based on OpenJDK so you obtain practically the same performance compared to Hotspot - Azul offers options to embed it on your apps; and - It only packs JDK and excludes the web…

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Jul 12, 2022

Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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

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

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"You pay for each feature that you want."

"It's an open source solution, so it's free."

"NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. "

"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."

"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Retailer

23%

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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Azul Systems

Overview

Zulu is a 100% open source certified build of OpenJDK, running on Linux, Windows, and OS X. Zulu complies with the Java SE standard for Java SE 8, 7, and 6. Free to download and use, Zulu is available on Azure, AWS, Canonical’s Charm Store and the Docker hub. Zulu Enterprise subscriptions deliver 24 x 7 x 365 access to Azul’s Support team.

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.

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