Mule ESB vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

The compared Salesforce and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. Salesforce is ranked #2 in E , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 21.0% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #9 in AIS , with an average rating of 7.4, and holds a 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)

Oracle SOA Suite

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (9th), SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Mule ESB is designed for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and holds a mindshare of 21.0%, down 22.6% compared to last year.
Oracle SOA Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Application Infrastructure, holds 3.9% mindshare, down 4.7% since last year.

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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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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

"Mule Expression Language"

"The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard."

"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."

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

"The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily."

"For complex cases, we employ the SSLi engine, whereas for simpler ones like healthcare or response data, such as EDI 270 or 271. We prefer to use an external XRT engine instead of handling it within the ESB for ease of management."

"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."

"The solution has a good graphical interface."

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

"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."

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

"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."

"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."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

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Cons

"In India, particularly in the banking sector, clients do not prefer cloud solutions due to regulatory and compliance requirements."

"MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard."

"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."

"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."

"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."

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

"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."

"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that."

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"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."

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

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"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 web services need to be more robust."

"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

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

"This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."

"This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."

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

"The pricing must be improved."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"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."

"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."

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"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 SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Educational Organization

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By reviewers

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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 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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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.

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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

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

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