Apigee Edge vs. WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

Few scenarios 1. For viewing API analytics, I think it is best in the market 2. For earning money via API monetization 3. Securing API 4. Onboarding legacy APIs to provide modern REST endpoints

Incentivized

WSO2 ESB is an awesome product for companies looking to venture into the world of SOA with an ESB. They have a lot of other products too that can work really well with their carbon infrastructure. The interface is simple for deploying and managing proxy services. You can also write custom modules within the ESB using Java with IDE like Eclipse

Incentivized

• Better exception handling with the Raise exception policies help to monitor the flow by setting up the flow conditions.
• Easy development of a Proxy and APIs with much less tutoring and helps make getting started for new users easy.
• Very good documentation and blog with details of most common failures and error handling.
• A very very easy to use console.

Incentivized

• One of the basic requirement of an ESB product is that it should be able to support transformation. WSO2 ESB provides support of XSLT, so you can transform your request to whatever format. Moreover, transformations like converting your xml payload into JSON and JSON payload to XML are out of the box available.
• WSO2 ESB provides a scheduler feature, by which you can configure your own scheduler to call a proxy service at a particular time of day or or initiate sequence.
• WSO2 ESB provides excellent error handling techniques, WSO2 ESB provides detailed error handling scenarios to tackle all the situations. WSO2 ESB also provides custom error handling by which you can make your own custom error message before sending it back to client.

• Only one user can be active in a proxy at a time
• No version control
• Prohibited from using JSON.stringify on Apigee objects (tokens)
• Debugging is difficult
• Unable to rename or delete policies without bumping revision
• Why would anyone give a js policy one name, display name something else, and script a different name?
• 'Trace' limited to only 20 transactions
• UI allows users to add target servers, but users must utilize the api to turn on SSL.
• I'm sure there's more, they just aren't coming to mind right now.
• Apigee forgets (expires?) your password at random intervals without notice. Every few weeks, or days, sometimes even three times in one day, I'll attempt to login to Apigee and my password will be 'wrong'. I've reset my password and Apigee still claims it's wrong. I've had to reset my password three times before it finally let me log back in.

Incentivized

• While it's easy to configure for a quick start, it is not so easy to deploy by yourself in a complex production scenario.
• Not very stable for production usage, we encountered several trivial bugs that make us believe that this product is still not widely adopted.
• Lack of a built in mechanism for auto-restart in case of an application server crash.

Incentivized

I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.

Incentivized

Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.

Incentivized

Compared to competitors the overall experience has been fine

Incentivized

Lack of auto-restart built-in capabilities. In case of running out of memory there are no built-in methods to recover from a crash, just for example, Oracle WebLogic Node Manager.

Incentivized

The product is performing well and consuming few resources

Incentivized

Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.

Incentivized

Our experience with the WSO2 support has beent satisfactory

Incentivized

Apigee is the best in the market in terms of API Analytics Apigee is having wonderful Documentation with short videos Security is a major concern and Apigee provides an easily configurable policy to secure API Quota and rate-limit is again very easy to configure on every API basis It provides various policies to transform the response from one form to another form e.g. JSON to XML or XML to JSON

Incentivized

It's the only one truly open source and free.

Adding a server node is really straightforward, there are just few point in the configuration files.

Incentivized

• As a public entity it is hard to say how much ROI we can have. We have yet to create a billing and ROI plan. We are thinking of other ways to create ROI, possibly through data/service barter.

Incentivized

• Very well documented tutorials and case studies makes it easy to learn.
• It has a really supportive community
• It is fast and it can easily handle 300 tps of average use on a VM with 4Gig RAM