Mule ESB vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

The compared Salesforce and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. Salesforce is ranked #2 in E , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 17.6% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #10 in AIS , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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87% willing to recommend

Oracle SOA Suite

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (2nd)

Oracle SOA Suite

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Infrastructure (10th), SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Mule ESB is designed for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and holds a mindshare of 17.6%, down 21.9% compared to last year.
Oracle SOA Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Application Infrastructure, holds 3.6% mindshare, down 4.1% since last year.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Mule ESB	17.6%
IBM Integration Bus	20.4%
webMethods.io	11.3%
Other	50.7%

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Application Infrastructure Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle SOA Suite	3.6%
Apache Web Server	11.4%
IIS	10.5%
Other	74.5%

Application Infrastructure

Featured Reviews

Maharsh-Kapadia

Enterprise Integration Architect at Tata Consultancy

Transforms enterprise integration with comprehensive platform and excellent support

The best features of this solution are that everything we get into a single platform, whether it's integration, API, or data modeling; everything is available in one platform. It's a hybrid, including cloud and on-premise solutions with good connectivity and good connectors. From the benefits of using Mule ESB, we could reduce the manual tasks to 50% in one to two years. The cost is still something we are trying to make lower because we see some advantages when we move from point-to-point integration to API-led connectivity. We have seen a lot of reusable assets, so the cost is reduced. Ultimately, we want to see how it's transformed into business revenue; that's what we are still looking into.

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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

"We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow."

"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."

"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."

"I like that it's user-friendly. Compared to other ESBs, I find it easier to use. I like it better than other ESBs. I like the connectors, which make calling the APIs through the routers easier."

"It is one of the best integration tools in the market."

"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."

"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."

"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."

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"The integration with various products."

"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."

"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."

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

"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

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

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

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Cons

"In order to meet the new trend of active metadata management, we need intelligent APIs that can retrieve new data designs and trigger actions over new findings without human intervention."

"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."

"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."

"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."

"The current version will not be supported for much longer."

"Lacking some connectors that could be included."

"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."

"We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases."

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"The web services need to be more robust."

"Its function options can be improved."

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

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

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

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."

"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."

"This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

"Mule ESB is a costly solution. We pay approximately $80,000 annually for the system. The cost of the number of instances, annual subscription, and cloud hosting services are expensive."

"I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."

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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 pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"The product is moderately priced."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

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

"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

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	40

Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company

I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...

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IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?

Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...

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What do you like most about Mule ESB?

The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.

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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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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

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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

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