Mule ESB vs Oracle Service Bus comparison

Salesforce and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9, while Oracle is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.5. Salesforce holds a 21.4% mindshare in E, compared to Oracle’s 11.7% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

Oracle Service Bus

Read 29 Oracle Service Bus reviews

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1,936 Comparison Views

93% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Oracle Service Bus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Service Bus

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Mule ESB is 21.4%, down from 22.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Service Bus is 11.7%, up from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PurbayanSaha

Technology Consultant at Ernst & Young

Has API-led architecture and provides a unique, user-friendly, and scalable architecture for hosting APIs

There's room for improvement in multi-file transfer functionality. It's not convenient when using MuleSoft, and it should have better capability for handling large amounts of data. For example, applications like GoAnywhere can handle huge chunks of data, so the tool should also have something to facilitate that aspect of integration.

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Radhey Rajput

Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation

Allows seamless integration and connectivity with different types of systems

I would suggest using this solution. Oracle Service Bus is very good. Any organization can use it. So it's very robust and scalable, and its security features are very good. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten because there are some loopholes in service and support. Sometimes, when we have issues and go to Oracle support, they will not give us solutions. Instead, they will ask for so many log files and emails. The product is good, but the support is not.

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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

"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."

"I like that Mule ESB provides fast and good technical support."

"The solution offers multiple deployment options."

"The solution has a good graphical interface."

"It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."

"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."

"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."

"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."

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"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."

"Overall it is a pretty good solution."

"The flexibility offered by Oracle Service Bus, especially in the latest versions, includes abstracting underlying processes and enabling drag-and-drop mappings from source to destination."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can connect with different applications."

"What I found most valuable in Oracle Service Bus is its time to market. It's excellent."

"It is stable."

"What I like most about Oracle Service Bus is that you can use it for many integrations. For example, you can use it for on-premises to on-premises integrations, on-premises to cloud integrations, and cloud to on-premises integrations."

"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."

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Cons

"From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved."

"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."

"The initial setup is not easy."

"The stability could be improved."

"The solution isn't as stable as we'd like it to be. There are some ongoing issues and therefore Mule has to provide frequent patches. Mule's core IP should be more stable overall."

"It should have some amount of logging."

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

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

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"There are times when I select components in composite and they do not appear, and I cannot figure out why."

"The support for GraphQL needs to be improved, and the response time for global support could be faster."

"The interface console is very slow. Even in production, we need to increase the RAM or CPU. And even after that, the performance is still not good in production."

"What needs improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the connectivity between adapters such as the Salesforce adapter and database adapters. The limited number of adapters compatible with Oracle Service Bus makes you want to switch to a different solution."

"There are some loopholes in service and support."

"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity."

"It would be ideal if they could optimize it a bit."

"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"The solution is expensive."

"The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."

"The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."

"Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."

"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."

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"This is a very expensive product and the price varies depending on factors such as the number of processors and the number of users. Our licensing fees are approximately $300,000."

"We have an unlimited yearly license."

"I'm not aware of how much Oracle Service Bus costs."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"Oracle Service Bus is a bit expensive"

"The price of this solution is better than the subscription-based Mule ESB."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

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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What do you like most about Oracle Service Bus?

The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Service Bus?

Integration was expensive around ten to fifteen years ago due to the need for highly specialized staff, not easily affordable for normal people.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Service Bus?

The consolidation functionality is minimal, lacking advanced features for complex integrations. This includes eliminating internal company transactions for financial reporting, which currently take...

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Comparisons

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Compared 31% of the time

IBM B2B Integrator vs Mule ESB

Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

Oracle SOA Suite vs Mule ESB

Compared 6% of the time

Red Hat Fuse vs Mule ESB

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

Red Hat Fuse vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 11% of the time

webMethods.io vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 9% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 6% of the time

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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.

Salesforce

Oracle Service Bus transforms complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, virtualizing, and managing interactions between services and applications. Oracle Service Bus delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for mission critical SOA environments where extreme performance, scalability and reliability are critical requirements.

Oracle Service Bus enables companies to use the values of their enterprise applications portfolio. From on-premise, to the cloud to mobile devices, Service Bus allows companies to leverage their existing investments in new ways by extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA and API Management.

Oracle

Sample Customers

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

MakeMyTrip Ltd., Griffith University, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Pacfico Seguros Generales, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, Guangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Pacfico Seguros Generales, Bank Audi S.A.L., Rydges Sydney Airport, Intelligent Pathways, Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP

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