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 7.9, and holds a 25.2% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #9 in AIS , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 4.0% 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

Oracle SOA Suite

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)

Oracle SOA Suite

Average Rating

8.0

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 25.2%, up 24.9% compared to last year.
Oracle SOA Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Application Infrastructure, holds 4.0% mindshare, down 4.5% since last year.

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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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Manoj Satpathy

Assistant consultant at vvolve management consultants

Mar 7, 2024

Provides good performance and error handling, but its initial setup is complex and could be improved

We use Oracle SOA Suite for application integration in our company. We were using the on-premises version of the product. Since Oracle SOA Suite has its own engine, you can build your integrations, deploy, and use them. We used the Oracle BPEL Process Manager for Orchestration when we had a lot of business logic. Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Oracle VPN come under the Oracle SOA integration platform. Compared to other solutions like SnapLogic, Oracle SOA Suite is not easy to use. Oracle SOA Suite is suitable for customers with a big complex integration process, where performance and infrastructure stability are more important. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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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

"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."

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

"The solution has a good graphical interface."

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

"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."

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

"It is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."

"Scalability and load balancing."

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"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."

"The integration with various products."

"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

"The product provides transparency in finances."

"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."

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Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic."

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

"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."

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

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

"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."

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

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"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."

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

"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

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

"One area that could be better is the human task feature. It could be improved to provide more functionality and customization options because it has limited options available."

"SOA"

"Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"The pricing must be improved."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

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

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"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

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

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

"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."

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

"The product is moderately priced."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

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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

10%

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 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.

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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