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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Service Bus

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Azure Service Bus as a reliable cloud messaging as a service (MaaS) and simple hybrid integration solution.N/A

    IBM DataPower Gateway

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AThe IBM DataPower Gateway is a security and integration platform.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Mule ESB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mule ESB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM DataPower Gateway
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Mule ESB
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Service BusIBM DataPower Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.0
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    Usability
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Service BusIBM DataPower Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    If you need a cloud-based service bus or a simple to use queue/topic/routing/pub-sub service, then Azure Service Bus is a very good choice at a reasonable price and performance. Typically on-premise we'd use RabbitMQ because it "just works", but if you're building a "cloud-first" application, then this is the one to go with. It's especially easy to integrate with if you're already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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    IBM
    WebSphere DataPower Gateway is really beneficial if you are trying to integrate two or more systems. It provides you with comfort and peace of mind by creating a DMZ zone for the services which are going out of the intranet to hit external clients APIs. It is greatly recommended if you have a very high volume service or API which is being used by a majority of clients because it has a dedicated physical box present which takes care of memory, CPU and all such stuff. So, all your transactions happen at wire-speed.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Acting as a basic queuing service it works very well.
    • One of the best parts is that Azure Service Bus can work over HTTPS which helps in strict firewall situations. There is a performance hit if you choose to use HTTPS.
    • The routing capabilities are quite good when using topics and subscriptions. You can apply filters using a pseudo-SQL-like language though the correlation filters are quick and easy options.
    • Costs are very reasonable at low-ish volumes. If you're processing 10's of millions of messages a month... it may be a different story.
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    IBM
    • The most obvious thing that DataPower does exceptionally well is security. All the built-in supported security capabilities allow us to isolate most security tasks to DataPower and as a result "protect" down steam services/systems to have to deal with security.
    • DataPower is very good at protocol conversion and as it is usually used on the edge allows you to narrow down the protocols used between the companies public and private networks.
    • The appliance concept makes maintenance, recovery and, management so much simpler.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The SqlFilter could be a little easier to use, but it's not terrible.
    • The performance while using HTTPS for the connection is a little slow compared to direct connections using AMQP ports.
    • There is a size limit to the message - unlike RMQ for instance, Azure Service Bus caps messages to 256kb on the standard tier.
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    IBM
    • API security
    • WAF improvements
    • Security improvements
    • REST support
    • Kafka support and event streaming
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    Cost of the appliance
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    In terms of usability, it has many advantages over other competitors in terms of integration, as it allows for the optimized creation of integration flows in a very quick and intuitive way from browsers, allowing for granular export and import of work, guaranteeing compatibility between different versions of the product.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    RabbitMQ is simple and awesome... but so is Azure Service Bus. Both accomplish the same thing but in different environments. If you're building a cloud-native application - especially one that is serverless by design - Azure Service Bus is the only real choice in Azure. It works well, it's performance, and it's reasonably priced in the Standard tier. From our testing, RMQ is more performant, but it's hard to compare service-based implementations vs RMQ installed on VMs.
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    IBM
    In his brand DataPower has not competitors, in security, transform and data validations DataPower is better than other products.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Compared to open-source free software like RMQ, Azure Service Bus does have some costs to it. But the cost is reasonable.
    • Also unlike RMQ, Azure Service Bus doesn't require you to stand up any hardware - so it's very easy to use and saves time/money from that perspective.
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    IBM
    • It has really taken our business to the next level. We have expanded and integrated with so many new vendors and for all those integrations DataPower is serving as our security gateway.
    • We don't have to depend on any other tool for doing the load balancing of the incoming requests as that is also taken care inside the WebSphere DataPower Gateway box itself, thereby distributing the load equally.
    • It has made our platform much more secure, uniform and robust to deal with any kind of incoming message format or threat as well due to its latest security mechanisms and huge processing power.
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