Apache Web Server vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

Apache and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Apache is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.8, while Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.4. Apache holds a 10.5% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Apache Web Server

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100% willing to recommend

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Oracle SOA Suite and Apache Web Server are key competitors in integration and web server software. Based on the feature set, Oracle SOA Suite edges out for its comprehensive integration capabilities, but Apache Web Server is more advantageous in terms of cost-effectiveness and community support.

Features: Oracle SOA Suite offers robust integration features with BPEL processes, Oracle Service Bus, and adapters for SAP, JD Edwards, and cloud connectivity. It supports REST and SOAP, ensuring stable performance. Apache Web Server stands out for its open-source nature, stability, and customizability. It supports multiple web scripting languages and efficiently handles client requests.

Room for Improvement: Oracle SOA Suite could enhance ease of use and installation processes. It needs improved cloud integration and simplified UI. Apache Web Server can improve in setup ease and integration with modern cloud systems, and it would benefit from a simplified GUI for novices.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle SOA Suite is primarily on-premises with emerging cloud support, requiring expert management due to complex setup. Customer support is variable, depending on Oracle's resource availability. Apache Web Server is predominately on-premises with hybrid cloud options, praised for community support but lacking formal customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle SOA Suite demands significant investment due to its rich feature offerings, promising long-term benefits. Apache Web Server is free, being open-source, though indirect costs may arise from hardware and network resources, maintaining its cost-effectiveness for budget-focused businesses.

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Web Server

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Apache Web Server is 10.5%, up from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Saurav Kumar

Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India

Offers security features that are reliable

When it comes to Apache Web Server, I don't have any suggestions for improvement because we use it in the UAT environment. For production, my company mainly uses NGINX. There is no direct package provided by the product if I want to use WAF. In NGINX, NGINX Plus has the signature update capability, but in Apache, the same feature is not available, making it an area where improvements are required. If WAF can be introduced in Apache Web Server, it would be a good improvement so that its users can implement either the WAF module or ModSecurity, as they choose. For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users. Apache Web Server should provide users with the same capabilities offered under NGINX Management Suite with the help of a simple GUI so that our company doesn't have to do anything on the terminal while directly getting to use the user interface, which can help us with the configuration part.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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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

"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."

"It is scalable."

"The best thing about Apache is that it is open-source, so implementing my platform on-premises is less expansive than other solutions."

"The product is very cheap and stable."

"The solution's most valuable feature is reporting."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"Its community is its most valuable feature. Solving problems is easier on Apache because so many people know this product."

"Apache has proven to be incredibly reliable, and everything has operated smoothly without encountering any issues."

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"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."

"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."

"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."

"The product provides transparency in finances."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

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

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Cons

"By optimizing the infrastructure to allow the webserver to directly handle queries from memory—particularly by prioritizing the storage of queries in memory and processing them through the web server interface—I could potentially cut down the required instances from five hundred to two hundred."

"The product's initial setup process could be easier for users."

"The major issue occurs with ports. So, I would like to see easier port management."

"The interface has room for improvement."

"So far, for us, everything is okay."

"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."

"Lacks integration with some cloud solutions."

"In future releases, I would like to see better server optimization."

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

"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."

"One area that could be better is the human task feature. It could be improved to provide more functionality and customization options because it has limited options available."

"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."

"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."

"SOA"

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

"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source solution."

"There is no licensing cost for the product."

"It is a free-of-cost solution."

"The apache software is free, open-source."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The product is moderately priced."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Educational Organization

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Web Server?

The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Web Server?

Apache Web Server is a free product, with no associated setup costs or licensing fees.

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What needs improvement with Apache Web Server?

There is no need for substantial improvements as we have a dedicated team managing the server, ensuring everything runs smoothly.

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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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Also Known As

Apache HTTP Server

SOA Suite

Overview

The Apache HTTP Server Project was founded in 1995 by a group of webmasters, known as The Apache Group, with the aim of developing robust, richly-featured, freely-available and commercial-standard Web (HTTP) server source code. The result was Apache Web Server or Apache HTTP Server, which is an open-source public-domain web server.

This collaborative project has been enhanced ever since with contributions from the core development team and other volunteers situated all over the globe. Also, hundreds of users of this open-source web server have contributed code, ideas, and documentation. The project falls under The Apache Software Foundation, which manages many open-source projects.

Apache

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

Oracle

Sample Customers

Cisco, Intuit, General Electric, Adobe, VMware, PayPal, HP, EMC, eBay, Apple, SAP, Qualcomm, SanDisk, Allstate, FedEx

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

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