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 7.6. Salesforce holds a 25.2% mindshare in E, compared to Oracle’s 12.5% 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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4,451 Comparison Views

86% willing to recommend

Oracle Service Bus

Read 28 Oracle Service Bus reviews

3,266 Views
2,223 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. Oracle Service Bus Report (Updated: October 2024).

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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

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Mule ESB is 25.2%, up from 24.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Service Bus is 12.5%, up from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Featured Reviews

PurbayanSaha

Technology Consultant at Ernst & Young

Sep 9, 2024

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

We're using our Mule ESB mostly for integration projects for multinational companies that do business on a B2C or B2B basis. We also work with companies with multiple third-party vendors employed under their payroll. The Mule ESB helps integrate data from third-party systems or vendors with the…

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Radhey Rajput

Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation

Jun 2, 2023

Allows seamless integration and connectivity with different types of systems

We are using Oracle Service Bus to connect multiple applications with multiple environments. So it's like we are connecting ServiceNow to Salesforce and ServiceNow to a legacy system With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the…

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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

"Easy connectivity and easy integration."

"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."

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

"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."

"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."

"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."

"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."

"The API management capabilities are exemplary. You can apply security policies to most applications, monitor logs, and get analytical data on request reception, response generation time, associated APIs, endpoints, and inbound and outbound messages."

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"API management and defining varying protocols are the most valuable features"

"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."

"The solution is quite stable overall. We haven't witnessed any performance issues so far."

"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."

"The most valuable feature is the adapters."

"Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."

"I like the ease of deployment and the ease of implementation."

"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."

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Cons

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

"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."

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

"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."

"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."

"Lacking some connectors that could be included."

"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."

"We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases."

More Mule ESB cons

"It needs to support more adapters, because the integration points keep changing and new things keep coming up. It also needs to be more scalable."

"There are issues, especially if you want to create some compensation in your service bin."

"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."

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

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

"Security needs to be more integrated."

"An area for improvement in Oracle Service Bus is the roadmap for its product launch. Currently, it's unclear, so Oracle should develop a roadmap for version 12c, so people can see what's coming out of that version of Oracle Service Bus. Cloud hosting is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Service Bus."

"This solution would benefit from having more cloud-based adapters."

More Oracle Service Bus cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"The pricing must be improved."

"Mule ESB is a costly solution. We pay approximately $80,000 annually for the system. The cost of the number of instances, annual subscription, and cloud hosting services are expensive."

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

"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."

"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."

More Mule ESB pricing and cost advice

"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."

"Oracle Service Bus is a bit expensive"

"The pricing is on the higher side."

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

"We have an unlimited yearly license."

"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

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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?

Pricing depends on the use case.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Service Bus?

The error handling capability can be improved, but the present capacity just meets the requirements. The error should be properly displayed in Oracle Service Bus instead of the user's need to searc...

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Comparisons

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Compared 33% of the time

Oracle SOA Suite vs Mule ESB

Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

Red Hat Fuse vs Mule ESB

Compared 7% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Mule ESB

Compared 6% of the time

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IBM Integration Bus vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 21% of the time

Red Hat Fuse vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 12% of the time

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 10% of the time

webMethods.io vs Oracle Service Bus

Compared 10% of the time

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 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.

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.

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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October 2024

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