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OpenESB vs Oracle Service Bus comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

OpenESB
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Service Bus
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of OpenESB is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Service Bus is 12.5%, up from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
 

Featured Reviews

PP
Jul 14, 2020
Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software
I used to work with Integration Bus. What is interesting is that the two products were made mainly by the same team, but OpenESB is lighter, you can run it on a simple GBM. It's lighter and has quite a few resources, no application server, and no database. This provides you with more intelligence because there is some kind of friction in the routing service, and you can play with that friction to provide some connection policy, like the last deployed policy. For example, if you were to install version one, and afterward, you deployed version two, automatically — if you decided that your connection will be the right deployed connection — you would be routed to the last version. If it doesn't work, you would just need to redeploy version one. Also, there are higher-level concepts, such as the interface of services, which allows you to define your interface and choose the method of implementation, like Java for example. On the other hand, with OpenESB, I am more connected. At the monitoring level, you can trust the level and replay the process, which is interesting, but because you have to store everything on the database, you have a conventional system that makes your system require more resources. The push ability to extract data from the process and then publish it in the data container is very interesting. For example, by using a database like Google's big data analytic search, you can create your own analytics from the data in your process without disturbing the process.
Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 2, 2023
Allows seamless integration and connectivity with different types of systems
We are using Oracle Service Bus to connect multiple applications with multiple environments. So it's like we are connecting ServiceNow to Salesforce and ServiceNow to a legacy system With Oracle Service Bus, we can connect with different types of systems. Another feature I like the most is the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"The core is very stable."
"The interface is fine and the solution is quite robust."
"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"The communication between applications is already defined, which means that you don't have to redefine your service infrastructure at the lower level."
"I am a part of the software developing team and I mainly use this solution for the integrating applications."
"The routing and aggregation are the most valuable features. It's split and join."
"Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the web's UI development."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Service Bus is its time to market. It's excellent."
"It was very good at supporting high transactions, up to 300 transactions per second."
 

Cons

"The documentation needs to be better."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"If they can containerize this, that would be nice. If they can provide docker images and offer support for those containers, that would be great."
"Security needs to be more integrated."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"Security features can be improved to better protect the server."
"The pricing of the product could be better. It's a bit high."
"We have faced a problem with the heap memory side, but that is stable now."
"It needs to support more adapters, because the integration points keep changing and new things keep coming up. It also needs to be more scalable."
"Lacks sufficient cloud compatibility."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are two versions. The first is the community version, which is free and contains the last part of the feature, but if you want to get the Enterprise version, you'll have to pay €60,000 which covers support and two instances on production."
"The cost for the prediction instrument is high because it is charged per instances based on prediction, but the rest of the solution is free."
"The Community Edition is a full product you can use in production, it does not have limitations like other alternatives."
"The price of this solution is better than the subscription-based Mule ESB."
"I'm not aware of how much Oracle Service Bus costs."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"We have an unlimited yearly license."
"This is a very expensive product and the price varies depending on factors such as the number of processors and the number of users. Our licensing fees are approximately $300,000."
"Oracle Service Bus is a bit expensive"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Wellness & Fitness Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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What do you like most about Oracle Service Bus?
The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.
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MakeMyTrip Ltd., Griffith University, Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Pacfico Seguros Generales, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, Guangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Pacfico Seguros Generales, Bank Audi S.A.L., Rydges Sydney Airport, Intelligent Pathways, Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP
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