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Mule ESB vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Mule ESB ROI is challenging to calculate but favorable with effective design, despite high licensing costs affecting returns.
Sentiment score
8.3
SnapLogic delivers significant time savings, improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced data analytics, driving better business decisions and ROI.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Mule ESB support is praised for expertise, but response times vary with some users needing more comprehensive solutions.
Sentiment score
6.8
SnapLogic support receives mixed reviews; users praise responsiveness, yet others cite delays and insufficient expertise, impacting overall satisfaction.
The technical support from SnapLogic is excellent, and I would give it a complete ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Mule ESB ensures high scalability, suitable for enterprises, enabling seamless cloud deployment and accommodating extensive user growth effectively.
Sentiment score
7.3
SnapLogic offers flexible scalability, effective in diverse scenarios, though some users experienced initial challenges and suggest potential improvements.
I rate the scalability of SnapLogic as eight out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Mule ESB is generally stable, especially in newer versions, but issues exist with large files and resource demands.
Sentiment score
7.4
SnapLogic is considered stable and reliable with minor upgrade challenges, but some prefer Boomi due to support issues.
I would rate the stability of SnapLogic as nearly ten out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Mule ESB requires better documentation, stable releases, improved connectors, coding features, and performance enhancements, despite high memory and licensing costs.
SnapLogic needs to enhance integrations, API management, debugging, customization, real-time processing, and AI features for improved usability.
If the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial.
I tend to frequently communicate with SnapLogic to ask for additional features, and they have been responsive.
 

Setup Cost

Mule ESB is costly for SMEs despite a free version, due to licenses and additional fees for certain features.
SnapLogic offers competitive pricing based on nodes and usage, valued for functionality in complex integrations without coding.
There would be only one point of improvement if the price could be lower.
SnapLogic is positioned at around seven or eight out of ten in terms of pricing.
 

Valuable Features

Mule ESB excels in flexibility, integration, user-friendly design, and scalability, featuring diverse deployment and robust support.
SnapLogic offers a low-code interface, extensive connectivity, and efficient automation, simplifying complex integrations with robust tools and fast deployment.
I also like the whole child-parent pipeline feature; it allows me to break up a process into smaller pieces and then have one big pipeline that controls these smaller pipelines.
I find SnapLogic to be user-friendly, especially for beginners with limited experience in data engineering or ETL.
 

Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)
SnapLogic
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (21st), Process Automation (15th), Cloud Data Integration (12th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)
 

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.
SnapLogic, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.1% mindshare, up 3.8% since last year.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Q&A Highlights

Nov 10, 2015
 

Featured Reviews

PurbayanSaha - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
VinethSuresh - PeerSpot reviewer
Achieves rapid results in data migration and has an intuitive user interface
I find SnapLogic to be user-friendly, especially for beginners with limited experience in data engineering or ETL. The interface is interactive, allowing me to quickly learn how to run pipelines and achieve production-ready results swiftly. This agility translates to cost savings, especially for smaller projects and proofs of concept, as less time and effort are needed to deliver results.
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Answers from the Community

Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015
MuleSoft and SnapLogic both are very good. If Integration mainly on ESB, DATA and Security then MuleSoft will be a better candidate.
2 out of 9 answers
DH
Mar 17, 2015
I have experience in cloud environments and installations in data center companies working with MuleSoft in version community, in terms of safety and effective cost is dependent on the type up your cloud provider but also can work at application level with ssl etc. MuleSoft is a very good option has high performance and is not difficult to get to work more thoroughly with the platform
it_user198171 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 17, 2015
MuleSoft (based on the disparate ESB looked at below) is a strong contender in the industry due to its robustness. My personal experience has been with SoftwareAG webMethods’ ESB which proved to be user-friendly with regards to implementation methodology and how the disparate yet interdependent components of the stack supplement and complement each other. 1. The cloud vs. on-premise debate is solely dependent on one’s risk appetite and their individual requirements. As a bank in South Africa we were loathe to have our core applications exposed to the outer world (cloud) due to the maturity of the service providers in our country and the level of confidence we have on their governance, security and operational capabilities. 2. With the SoftwareAG stack, I used CentraSite which was another component supplementary to the stack that focuses on SOA governance (policy enforcement), mediation and performance monitoring. The dashboards that come with it allowed for early detection of any anomalies with regards throughput (volume of messages processed per second), latency, performance (how quickly each message was processed), and also showed how many times any service was been invoked across the stack. With proper fine tuning we could achieve speeds of about 100 messages per second for our most complex queries (those doing orchestration, enrichment, transformation etc.) Hope this helps, if not, you could ask specific questions and I will attempt to assist to the best of my knowledge.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
 

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
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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.
What do you like most about SnapLogic?
Despite having no prior experience in SnapLogic, we managed to build, test, and prepare it for release in just three hours, handling heavy data efficiently.
What needs improvement with SnapLogic?
I am quite happy with the solution and do not have specific requirements at the moment. I tend to frequently communicate with SnapLogic to ask for additional features, and they have been responsive...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
I mainly use it for data integration and some API tasks.
 

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