ESB Comparison Criteria

S. No Criteria Proprietary Open Source

1 Ease of use Very complex installation One Click Installer (also for Mac in some cases), start using after minutes, unified platform

2 Maintainability and Monitoring Powerful tooling (e.g. for administration and monitoring), Analysis of source code not necessary, refactoring via GUI

Less powerful tooling (e.g. for administration and monitoring, integration of further products from other vendors required sometimes), Analysis of source code not necessary, refactoring via GUI

3 Community Buy support, forums (but no real community which helps)

Based on open source projects, plus own community

4 Enterprise Support 24/7 enterprise support, SLAs as you wish, deployments with thousands of servers

24/7 enterprise support, less guarantees than proprietary support, check for local consulting and support

5 Functionality Integration features + many more (BAM, CEP, EDA, etc., etc., etc.)

Integration features + some more

6 Flexibility (Make a change request + wait long + pay) OR (pay a lot + get it quickly)

Open source, change what you want

7 Extensibility Do it yourself (tough) OR pay Standards-based, defacto standards

8 Connectors Adapters for technologies and business products

Adapters for technologies and business products

9 Costs MUCH (and even more) LESS

10 Licensing Complex price list, pay for everything (upgrades, migration to VM, „you-name-it“)

Subscription model, upgrades inclusive, predictive costs, downgrades possible

API Manager Features- Proprietary V/S Open source S. No Feature Oracle API Manager MuleSoft API Manager

1 Complete API Management Solution Yes Yes

2 Capacity to Catalog and Daisy Chain Catalogs Yes Yes

3 Award-Winning ESB In proprietary In Open Source

4 Policy Management Yes Yes

5 Mobile Integration Support Yes Yes

6 API Gateway at DMZ Yes Yes

7 Developer-Centric User Interfaces and Portals Yes Yes

8 Monitoring and Management Yes Yes

9 License Cost More Subscription Model