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

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

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

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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Manoj Satpathy

Assistant consultant at vvolve management consultants

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

"The most beneficial features of Mule ESB are the control plane and runtime plane."

"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."

"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."

"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."

"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."

"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."

"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."

"Scalability and load balancing."

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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 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."

"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."

"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."

"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."

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

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

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

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Cons

"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 needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."

"It would be beneficial if users could navigate the UI easily without extensive training or learning curves."

"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."

"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."

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

"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."

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"The product is not user-friendly."

"Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce."

"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."

"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."

"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."

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

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"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."

"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 product is moderately priced."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

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

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

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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

Educational Organization

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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