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InterSystems Ensemble vs NGINX Plus comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

InterSystems Ensemble
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
21st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NGINX Plus
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of InterSystems Ensemble is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 8.0%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NGINX Plus8.0%
InterSystems Ensemble1.7%
Other90.3%
Application Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

it_user463221 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
We use the solution for web services.
It would be good to enhance the schedule interface. There is no indication that lets us know if a module has stopped. Shortly speaking, each business host has color in the Production page. Meanings of colors are described in a "Legend" link on the Production page. Also, each business host either has or has no private pool (processes that work with its queues). When we stop a business host by scheduling, its private processes are killed (if they exist). Such a situation is not expressed in changing business host color. The only way to check if a business host is stopped by scheduling is to check its processes presence.
Nadeem-Inamdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Advanced policies and web firewall have strengthened application protection and reduced attack traffic
There were some vulnerabilities in F5. They tried to fix it, but the fixes were not available at the time because they were zero days, so they attempted to fix it, but their support was not proper. Their support should be improved because sometimes features which we need for customization take time, and they are sometimes feasible and sometimes not feasible by the team, so their support and the engineering team should improve their product. I would like to see more features regarding customization which should be built into the application, and the tool optimization should be good, and the dashboard should be more crisp and clear.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The InterSystems technical support (WRC) is perfect and highly qualified."
"I receive very good support."
"I think NGINX Plus is one of the most powerful and fittest solutions in this area, and I'd recommend it to others."
"The overall product rating is ten out of ten."
"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."
"It is a great product, it serves us well and is the best solution."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Recently, we’ve needed to deploy sites over a number of servers to balance the load, which was not only painless but also super valuable."
 

Cons

"It would be good to enhance the schedule interface."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The KPI on NGINX Plus should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."
"It's an open source solution, so it's free."
"The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours.​"
"The cost is reasonable."
"​NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it.​"
"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."
"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."
"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

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Also Known As

Ensemble
NGINX, F5 NGINX Plus
 

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Sample Customers

CysNET, Pennine Acute Hospitals, Kettering Health Network, Objectway, WS trends, Ontario Systems, Assurenet, 3M, Northgate Public Services, CentraCare
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