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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HAProxy Community Edition

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHAProxy Community Edition is a free, open source reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is presented as suited for very high traffic web sites.

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    Mashery (now part of Boomi)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.N/A
    Pricing
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of HAProxy Community Edition and Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Feature
    HAProxy Community Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    6.9
    23 Ratings
    20% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings6.522 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Small Businesses
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionMashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    It prevents a single server failure from being a downtime event by adding redundancy to every layer of your architecture. A load balancer facilitates redundancy for the backend layer (web/app servers), but for a true high availability setup, you need to have redundant load balancers as well. So it is well suited for all production related servers and less suited for individual servers that do not require redundancy.
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    Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Low-Cost Load Balancer
    • Intelligent Request Routing based on URL and/or URI
    • Extremely flexible load balancing and healthchecks, can do almost anything including HTTP, HTTPS, PostgreSQL, etc.
    • SSL Termination
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    • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
    • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
    • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • A few, rare times each year, HAProxy CPU utilization spikes to 100% and server has to be rebooted - this may be related to HAProxy OR it could be an external factor causing this.
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    • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
    • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
    • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
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    Discontinued Products
    Ease of use.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    It is very easy to use. I was able to find a lot of documents for it on the internet. Very good community support. There are lots of examples available to try. We mostly use a command-line user interface to interact with it. The CLI is also super easy to use and very easy to interact with
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    i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    We haven't used customer support. We mostly used the community version. We build a multi-node HAProxy cluster with HA to the proxy itself using opensource plugins available. With the support available on the internet and the documents available we don't need to use much customer support.
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    Support has been good overall.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    We chose HA Proxy because it is cheaper than a hardware balancer, it is an open-source solution with a large community behind it and with constant updates. It also allows custom scripts according to needs.HA Proxy is a solution used in many internet sites like GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and Tuenti.
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    Discontinued Products
    I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Significantly lower investment vs competitors. In the case of F5s we have Virtual Editions so we're paying for the hardware to run it on top of the several thousand dollar licenses that are required for each pair and we currently have a pair of F5s per client so there's a huge potential for cost savings there.
    • Requires our network engineers to learn a new skill or our Systems engineers to take on the responsibility of managing the load balancers. It's not a huge difference either way, but it does impact the way we have done business in the past.
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    Discontinued Products
    • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
    • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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