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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs TetraScience comparison

F5 and TetraScience are both solutions in the AWS Marketplace category. F5 is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7, while TetraScience is ranked #99 with an average rating of 6.5. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of TetraScience users who would recommend it.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
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100% willing to recommend
TetraScience
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50% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and TetraScience based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TetraScience
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
99th
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Kodanda Ramji C.S - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers easy-to-use integration capabilities
It is a scalable solution. In F5 BIG-IP i5800, if you have assigned a single CPU and memory for a virtual instance and if it increases, you can just add a CPU and memory to the existing vCMP. What you have to do is spin one more virtual instance with the two CPUs and double the memory, like eight GB memory, for example. You can't just increase the existing VirtualBox. You have to create another VirtualBox parallel, download the configurations, and import it. My company provides one banking application to around ten customers. My company has around seven virtual instances and seven applications, each application having around 70 customers running on one F5 BIG-IP i5800. My company has created seven VirtualBox.
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Varun Khandavalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient data integration and good automation with challenging configurability
The application has a difficult-to-use parsing capability, which requires a lot of reengineering when the use case isn't specifically met. The application also lacks capabilities within its terminal commands that are not available in their GUI. It requires a lot of configurability, which could be streamlined for an enterprise application user.
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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

"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."
"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"It's easy to use, and they have good support."
"The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it."
"It has DoS layer 7 protection, which not many vendors have."
"The tool's investment is less than a physical device."
"The ingestion engines were pretty good."
"The crawler agents they provide, as well as TetraScience exclusive parsers, allow for specific instruments that we use in our labs with proprietary formats to extract data and put it into more standard formats for various purposes."
 

Cons

"The tool has limitations with respect to code and RAM."
"It's expensive and could be cheaper."
"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."
"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a heavy system that needs a lot of CPU, memory, and hard disk."
"On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The application has a difficult-to-use parsing capability, which requires a lot of reengineering when the use case isn't specifically met."
"While functional during ingestion workflows, the automation toolkit required manual processes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is an expensive solution, but it's worth the price."
"The pricing is standard."
"My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
9%
Retailer
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it.
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What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
It's expensive and could be cheaper. At the moment, I can't think of anything to improve.
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What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
The solution is very good. I would rate the solution maybe ten out of ten.
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What needs improvement with TetraScience?
The application has a difficult-to-use parsing capability, which requires a lot of reengineering when the use case isn't specifically met. The application also lacks capabilities within its termina...
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What is your primary use case for TetraScience?
TetraScience is a platform that integrates instruments into a laboratory environment into other software applications that can help leverage the data. In most pharma companies, the application is u...
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What advice do you have for others considering TetraScience?
I would approach with caution. The platform has a high knowledge gap and the proprietary nature of its parsers and crawling agents. Before approaching TetraScience, have your use case in hand and u...
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Overview

When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) deliver the application services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor. Get the scalability, security, and automatability BIG-IP products are known for—all in software designed for use in single-, hybrid-, or multi-cloud architectures.

F5

TetraScience liberates, unifies, and transforms your raw data into more-than-FAIR, AI-native data.
We bring this AI-native data to life in a rapidly growing suite of next-generation lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-based scientific outcomes.
Only the Tetra Scientific Data and AI Cloud can liberate your data, engineer it for your most demanding scientific use cases and AI initiatives, and future-proof it so you’re never locked into vendor walled gardens again.

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