NGINX Plus vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

F5 and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.9. F5 holds a 11.9% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

NGINX Plus

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92% willing to recommend

Oracle SOA Suite

Read 65 Oracle SOA Suite reviews

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942 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between NGINX Plus and Oracle SOA Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed NGINX Plus vs. Oracle SOA Suite Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (5th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 11.9%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 4.1%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure

Featured Reviews

Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

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.

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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

"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."

"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."

"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."

"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."

"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."

"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."

"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."

"This solution has everything."

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

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

"The product provides transparency in finances."

"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 most valuable feature of Oracle SOA Suite is all the platform's capabilities."

"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."

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Cons

"The scalability could be improved."

"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."

"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."

"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."

"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."

"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."

"The center management system could be improved."

"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."

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"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

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

"The web services need to be more robust."

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

"SOA"

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

"The product is not user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours."

"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"You pay for each feature that you want."

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."

"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."

"The cost is reasonable."

"The solution is free, but you can spend a lot of money with a complex solution."

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"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 pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"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."

"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

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

NGINX is not cost-effective, especially for few applications, and is considered higher-priced.

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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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Comparisons

IIS vs NGINX Plus

Compared 19% of the time

HAProxy vs NGINX Plus

Compared 18% of the time

Kemp LoadMaster vs NGINX Plus

Compared 14% of the time

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs NGINX Plus

Compared 10% of the time

Apache Web Server vs NGINX Plus

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 37% of the time

WebLogic Suite vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 34% of the time

Apache Web Server vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 9% of the time

Microsoft .NET Framework vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 4% of the time

IBM BPM vs Oracle SOA Suite

Compared 4% of the time

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Overview

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

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

Sample Customers

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

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