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CData API Server vs. WSO2 API Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CData API Server
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
CData's API Server enables users to create APIs from existing enterprise data. Users cna hook up any SQL or NoSQL database and the API Server generates what the vendor states will be flexible, comprehensive, and fully documented APIs.
$2,499
per year
WSO2 API Platform
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…N/A
Pricing
CData API ServerWSO2 API Platform
Editions & Modules
Standard
$2,499
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CData API ServerWSO2 API Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CData API ServerWSO2 API Platform
Considered Both Products
CData API Server

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WSO2 API Platform
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Anonymous
Chose WSO2 API Platform
Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose WSO2 API Platform
Nevatech Sentinet:
The easiest API Manager available. No knowledge of how the product works internally needed! It works with C# (not java... with all it's config files... really? Java developers?). Great way to categorize API's into groups (domains). All of which is drama in …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose WSO2 API Platform
IBM API Manager is a better enterprise wide tool.
Features
CData API ServerWSO2 API Platform
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
CData API Server
-
Ratings
WSO2 API Platform
8.8
Ratings
4% above category average
API access control00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
API usage data00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API user onboarding00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API versioning00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
CData API ServerWSO2 API Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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9.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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WSO2 is a unique product that provides pre-integrated components like Gateway, Integrator, identity management, etc. Hence it is best suited when the requirement is not just only publish the APIs but also to secure and transform the APIs. WSO2 can be an overhead if only Gateway is required, as there are other very lightweight gateways available in the market.
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Pros
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  • API Security
  • API Transformation
  • API Monetization
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Cons
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  • Installation of this product is a hell. You need to be an expert to get this running together with WSO2 Analytics. It uses a really confusing method of "port + 1" to connect extra products. I guess this was meant to provide a handy way to add new WSO2 products. In reality you'll need to scroll through numerous config files to set this straight. If you use this out of the box, everything will work all right. But the moment you add SSL certificates, DNS names and you'll need special ports to configure your firewall, this product becomes unmaintainable.
  • The "Store" provides a nice way to group API's. However, the "Publisher" does not... if you have more than 30 API's searching for API's becomes really annoying.
  • The number of configs in this product is huge. As a developer myself, I've never seen (and definitely never created) a product that needed that much config files. Installation and maintenance of products should be stupidly simple, since no developer nor infrastructure person wants to learn something that "just" needs to be a tool.. opposed to being a whole new area of expertise. After using WSO2 API Manager for a while, we wanted to change the admin password... this should be simple enough, like just change the password in "Carbon." But nope. The whole WSO2 environment crashed. We just gave up. Too dangerous.
  • Why so many different "products"? Publisher, Store, Carbon, and numerous hidden interfaces. Analytics, ESB whatever... No wonder there are so many config files and port issues. Make it simple!!!
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Alternatives Considered
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Nevatech Sentinet: The easiest API Manager available. No knowledge of how the product works internally needed! It works with C# (not java... with all it's config files... really? Java developers?). Great way to categorize API's into groups (domains). All of which is drama in WSO2. But Sentinel is really expensive... Mulesoft: Nice and clean. Again, no expert knowledge needed of how the product works internally. Like using word... or any other application, except WSO2. Have java developers never heard of exposing configurations through a user inyterface?? Mulesoft, however is really expensive. Azure: Not cheap!! And a chaotic interface too. But it pays! If you have a Microsoft account already, this is your next step. We chose WSO2 4 years ago because it was free... but we're moving to azure now. And we're very happy with that decision.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive impact on continuity and API standardization.
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