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Mule ESB vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB
Average Rating
8.0
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
23
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (25th), Process Automation (16th), Cloud Data Integration (13th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (10th)
 

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 25.5%, up 24.9% compared to last year.
SnapLogic, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.0% 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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Mule Expression Language"
"The most valuable feature is the Salesforce integration."
"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."
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"The connectivity the solution provides is excellent. There are often too many systems that we have to integrate and this helps with that."
"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."
"The technical support from SnapLogic is excellent, and I would give it a complete ten."
"I find SnapLogic to be user-friendly, especially for beginners with limited experience in data engineering or ETL."
"It's more developer-friendly, and development can be done at a faster phase."
"What I found most valuable in SnapLogic is the ETL feature, particularly the Transform Snap Pack, for example, any kind of reading or writing on Transform Snaps. Other than that, all the third-party connectivity tools such as the SAP Snap Pack, Salesforce Snap Pack, Workday Snap Pack, even the ServiceNow Snap Pack, I find all those are pretty useful in SnapLogic."
"The API architecture makes it easy for orchestration."
"I found SnapLogic valuable and what I found most valuable about it was its ETL feature. I also found its automation feature valuable. It can be used for automating manual activities. It can be used as a middleware for certain transactional data processing and minimal datasets and ETL activities."
"They are very good at building out new aspects according to customer requirements."
"It is a stable solution."
 

Cons

"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."
"Improvements could be made in performance."
"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."
"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"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."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"It needs more samples. Also, the dependency on Maven should be removed."
"The problem is that SnapLogic doesn't offer a wide variety of connectors. For example, integrating with Salesforce is not that easy."
"We'd like there to be more ways for users to get more comfortable and have more experience with the solution to make it easier to use."
"The support is the most important improvement they could make."
"We'd like zero downtime in the future."
"While it performs well, there is some room for improvement in this area."
"SnapLogic doesn't provide any on-premises software, so users have only cloud-based software to use."
"I am looking for more scheduling options. When it comes to scheduling, there are different tools in the market."
"One area for improvement in SnapLogic is the transparency in the flow of data. It needs to have more transparency. Right now, users only have a preview option at the end of any job flow, so at the end of any Snap Pack, there is a data preview option that lets you review the data and see how it's moving. What would make the solution better is more debugging and more access to change data from the preview panel or more functionality in terms of the preview option."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."
"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."
"The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."
"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."
"The pricing must be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."
"From the ROI perspective, the price is extremely high"
"When comparing it with solutions like Apigee or MuleSoft, it still offers better value."
"The license model is based on consumption."
"The cost with SnapLogic is an annual license and better than Informatica."
"SnapLogic is not expensive. It's reasonably priced."
"The pricing is okay."
"It is a higher initial cost than other easy-to-use integration apps."
"I used the free trial."
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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
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
5%
 

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 ...
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...
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?
SnapLogic is doing well in evolving with the AI landscape. However, if the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial. Addi...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
I utilize SnapLogic for data migration and data integration projects. I use it mainly as a middleware tool, working with a lot of SAP data. By transferring SAP data into more cost-effective databas...
 

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