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NGINX Plus vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

NGINX Plus
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (5th)
Oracle SOA Suite
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 11.5%, down from 12.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 4.0%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation
NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.
Manoj Satpathy - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is resilient."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."
"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."
"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."
"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."
 

Cons

"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"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."
"SOA"
"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."
"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."
"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."
"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."
"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."
"The cost is reasonable."
"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."
"​NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. ​"
"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."
"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."
"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."
"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."
"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about NGINX Plus?
It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?
There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free. There's also NGINX Plus, which is a paid version with additional features.
What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?
The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.
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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