ABP vs. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition vs. Serverless Framework

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ABP
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A web development platform for modern ASP.NET Core applications based on the open-source, strong, and mature ABP Framework. Volosoft states the service provides: enterprise-ready, feature-rich, pre-built application modules (e.g. Identity Server management, SaaS management, language management, etc.) rapid application development tooling to support your development productivity (e.g. ABP Suite) professional UI themes Premium support Time is the most…
$2,999
3 included developer licenses, limited forum support
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
WebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.
$88.50
per month
Serverless Framework
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The Serverless Framework empowers developers to build and operate serverless architectures on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and 5 other cloud platforms. The Serverless Framework is an open source project on GitHub, and popular for serverless development.
$0
Pricing
ABPIBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionServerless Framework
Editions & Modules
Team
$2999.00
3 included developer licenses, limited forum support
Business
$5999.00
5 included developer licenses, unlimited forum support
Enterprise
$9999.00
5 included developer licenses, limited forum support
Application Server
$88.50
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ABPIBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionServerless Framework
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
ABP
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Ratings
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
7.3
31 Ratings
9% below category average
Serverless Framework
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Ratings
IDE support00 Ratings5.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings7.831 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.131 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings7.530 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings6.626 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ABPIBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionServerless Framework
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(3 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
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(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ABPIBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionServerless Framework
Likelihood to Recommend
Volosoft
If you are building a simple web application and want to bypass all of the basic building blocks (authentication & authorization, multi-tenant, etc, etc.), then ABP Commercial will allow you to do this very quickly with their tooling. It is also an excellent tool if you are building a large complicated SAAS product, as long as you are willing to invest the time required to understand the 'why' behind their architectural decisions and follow their methods throughout your development.
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IBM
IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
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Serverless, Inc
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Pros
Volosoft
  • Documentation
  • Premium theme
  • Basic modules
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IBM
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
  • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
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Serverless, Inc
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Cons
Volosoft
  • More modules are always welcomed
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IBM
  • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
  • Takes long time to start the server.
  • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
  • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
  • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
  • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
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Serverless, Inc
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Likelihood to Renew
Volosoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
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Serverless, Inc
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Usability
Volosoft
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IBM
WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
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Serverless, Inc
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Performance
Volosoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
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Serverless, Inc
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Support Rating
Volosoft
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IBM
IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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Serverless, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
Volosoft
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IBM
Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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Serverless, Inc
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Return on Investment
Volosoft
  • We have a small team, and ABP Commercial has allowed us to build a SAAS application that is feature-rich in much less time than if we built everything from scratch.
  • ABP Commercial continues to provide benefits with every update. Keeping current on new versions of dependencies (such as .NET) requires a fraction of the work on our end since ABP Commercial updates the base framework and we can leverage that work. This was a HUGE benefit when IdentityServer4 changed from Open Source to a very expensive commercial license.
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IBM
  • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
  • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
  • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
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Serverless, Inc
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