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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:
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.0
SnapLogic is praised for cloud scalability, user-friendly setup, and flexible resource allocation, though some face initial setup challenges.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
8.8
SnapLogic provides an intuitive, hybrid deployment platform with low-code development, seamless app integration, high data transfer, and extensive API management.
 

Stability Issues

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7.5
SnapLogic is generally stable with minimal bugs and downtime, though some users experience availability issues and job failures with large data.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
6.2
SnapLogic needs improvements in complex processing, data flow transparency, API monitoring, user dashboards, support, debugging, and high-volume data handling.
 

Customer Service

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8.5
SnapLogic's customer service is seen as responsive by some, but others report delays and insufficient support knowledge.
 

Setup Cost

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6.5
SnapLogic offers reasonable, consumption-based pricing that remains affordable despite recent increases, especially compared to competitors.
 

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
7.7
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (24th), 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 25.2%, up 24.9% compared to last year.
SnapLogic, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 3.9% mindshare, up 3.9% 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.
Selva Dhoom - PeerSpot reviewer
Automates manual activities and has helpful documentation that allows users to self-study
What could be improved in SnapLogic is that it was not capable in terms of processing a large number of datasets, but at that point, SnapLogic was evolving. It didn't give a lot of Snaps. I heard recently there are a lot of Snaps getting added and the solution was being enhanced, particularly to connect different data sources. When I was working with SnapLogic six months to one year back, I faced the issue of it not being capable of handling a huge volume of datasets or didn't have much of Snaps, and that was the drawback. If there is any large number of data sets, that's based on or depends on your configuration. If it is a huge volume of data, other traditional ETL tools such as Informatica and Talend can process millions and billions of records, while in SnapLogic, the Snaplex fails or it returns an error in terms of processing that huge volume of data. Informatica, Talend, or any other ETL tool can run for hours in terms of jobs, while SnapLogic jobs fail when the threshold is reached. SnapLogic isn't able to withstand processing, but I don't know if that's still an issue at present, because the solution is getting enhanced and it's been more than six months to one year since I last worked with SnapLogic. There are now a lot of Snaps getting added to the solution, and if it can overcome the limitations I mentioned, SnapLogic could be the go-to tool because currently, it's not being used as much in organizations. It's being used comparatively less compared to other retail tools.
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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.
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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
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
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?
The biggest issue we have faced in our company with SnapLogic is regarding the EDI format. For instance, suppose if 20 EDIs are shortlisted then SnapLogic will convert and provide only those specif...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
In our company, we used the solution to build a SnapLogic pipeline in a non-production environment. Presently, our company is releasing it to the production environment. We have used SnapLogic in o...
 

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