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Amazon API Gateway vs. Drools vs. IBM Decision Manager Open Edition

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon API Gateway

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AAWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.

    $0.90

    Per Million

    Drools

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A

    IBM Decision Manager Open Edition

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Decision Manager Open Edition (formerly Red Hat Decision Manager) is a business rules management and CEP option. Announced in 2022, the product is transitioning to IBM.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayDroolsIBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Editions & Modules
    Past 300 Million
    $0.90
    Per Million
    First 300 Million
    $1.00
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon API GatewayDroolsIBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeRequired
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon API GatewayDroolsIBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Drools and IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Decision Manager Open Edition
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    Ratings
    API access control9.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies10.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    API usage data8.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    API versioning9.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments10.012 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging10.014 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayDroolsIBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayDroolsIBM Decision Manager Open Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Experienced a lack of available programming languages while working on a minor project. I had to halt the project and wait for it to be added later. It took ages and had a hit on our productivity. It has a centralized management system which helps and an easy interface which helps to manage multiple tasks in case of large-scale operations and projects.
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    Open Source
    As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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    IBM
    Red Hat Decision Manager is well suited for developing a microservices-based application architecture where reusable components / APIs can be used across different end-user applications. It however may not be well suited for use cases where business users need low code / no-code environment to maintain business rules themselves without any developer / IT team support
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Gateway integrates well with AWS Lambda. This allows us to build a web server in the language and framework of our choice, deploy it as a Lambda function, and expose it through API Gateway.
    • API Gateway manages API keys. Building rate limiting and request quota features are not trivial (or interesting).
    • API Gateway's pricing can be very attractive for services that are accessed infrequently.
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    Open Source
    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code
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    IBM
    • Business rule management for filtering the candidate
    • Automate the possible decision making which reduces the time and increase the productivity
    • Whenever business rule changes based on the client requirement.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
    • Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
    • Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
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    Open Source
    • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
    • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
    • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
    • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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    IBM
    • It should be easy to use because it needs more knowledge
    • You should be trained to your partner well
    • Well Documentations are needed
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Open Source
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    IBM
    Red Hat Decision Manager can be scaled and adapted to meet the automation needs of the organization as it grows by reusing the components and business rules data which provides a high ROI on the renewal costs.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is a great product very reliable and stable for connecting various aws services like we connected with lambda function and it is working very well, never faced any issue after the setup. It also saves out lots of money as well as time after we implemented the automatic ec2 server recovery system
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    Open Source
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    IBM
    Implementation phase is very difficult .Of course ,you need to know bunch of things about cloud,container,automatization
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    We always had a great experience with the AWS support team. They were always on time and very dependable. It was a good partnership while we worked to resolve our issues.
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    Open Source
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    IBM
    The support for Red Hat decision Manager can be improved to be more omnichannel with better response times for the customers.
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    Implementation Rating
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    Open Source
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    IBM
    For high volume and / or complex set of legacy business rules, plan for adequate time for data migration activities.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    When we tested Azure API Management at the time, it had serious connectivity issues, it was very unstable, and it needed to do a lot using the command line. Comparing with the AWS solution, which was more mature, and the fact that we have services in use on AWS, we ended up choosing to continue using AWS products. This so as not to run the risk of increasing latency in accesses, and of some functionality not working, due to being developed yet.
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    Open Source
    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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    IBM
    If you have a low budget to invest probably JBoss BRMS is the option for you, if your budget is not restricted you'll probably like to consider Bizagi
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • ROI is negative, you need either to hire them to work with you or spend days/weeks to figure out issues.
    • For some of the projects in the end it is not worth it, it is just a "buzz" to use serverless but not practical.
    • Service is easy to set up authorization and it is easy to manage.
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    Open Source
    • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
    • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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    IBM
    • Quickly write business rules
    • Computers can take decision
    • Complex event processing
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