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    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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    Sonatype Platform

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Sonatype secures the software supply chain and protects organizations' vital software development lifecycle(SDLC). The platform unites security teams and developers to accelerate digital innovation without sacrificing security or quality across the SDLC. With users among more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers, Sonatype tools and guidance help users to deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.

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    HAProxy Community EditionSonatype Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Nexus Repository
    $175
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall
    $224
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall for Artifactory
    $224
    per year per user
    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Repository Firewall
    $230
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall Cloud
    $265
    per year per user
    Sonatype Lifecycle
    $690
    per year per user
    Sonatype Lifecycle Cloud
    $810
    per year per user
    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Lifecycle
    $825
    per year per user
    Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro
    $960
    per month (billed annually)
    Sonatype Nexus Repository
    $960
    per month (billed annually)
    Sonatype SBOM Manager
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    HAProxy Community EditionSonatype Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionSonatype Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
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    8.0
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    Availability
    -
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    9.0
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    Performance
    -
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    9.7
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    10.0
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    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    Configurability
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    8.4
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    9.0
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    Ease of integration
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    9.0
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    Product Scalability
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    8.0
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    Professional Services
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionSonatype Platform
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sonatype
    - Guidance on remediation is very good - Vulnerability detection is very good - Support is very good - Ability to ask PMs/POs open questions at Office Hours every month is very good - Support for languages is lacking (TIOBE Index Top20) - Some features are un-neededly hidden and make the usage more complex then it needs to be
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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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    Sonatype
    • Nexus firewall is a great feature enabled for all our proxy repositories which are used to download the third-party opensource packages.
    • Nexus IQ is integrated with build stage to analyze the component against evaluation policy. This helps to figure out the application security standards.
    • Nexus IQ is also having a feature to scan container images before it uploads to our private repository. This is great feature for container platforms.
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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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    Sonatype
    • Support on the end of life lifecycle of known open source components that are going end of life, or already went end of life
    • Support for emerging infrastructure as code frameworks
    • Support for native/ default retention, archiving and clean up policies for hosted repositories
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Sonatype
    Sonatype supports more than 200 dev(s). It proves with the repository to store the artifacts. Allows for governance of open source software used by the different teams. It is used by security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in software(s) and in the deployed containers. It helps ensure code quality.
    Incentivized
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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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    Sonatype
    Overall experience is great with the Platform; however, I see some opportunity with upgrading the platform as it is missing with data of historical scans to allow reviewer to get view of trend how the application/product development team is considering fixing the issues.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    Extremely good
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    Performance
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    Sonatype products are great value as I said but a few areas like how products use underlying resources in order to make it further lightweight, is something I would like them to consider.
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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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    Sonatype
    Monthly touchpoints with Sinisa has been very valuable.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    easy to implement and performing the scans via automations as well
    Incentivized
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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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    Sonatype
    Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy to understand and work with, makes the process of evaluating open source dependencies much easier and appealing for developers.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    Great value for money
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    Scalability
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    Everything is very good except a little concern regarding large scale docker usage.
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    Professional Services
    Open Source
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    Sonatype
    Very good
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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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    Sonatype
    • Sonatype's centralized management of artifacts have made it very easy for developers to share code in an efficient manner.
    • Sonatype's low false positive rate has made it easier to convince developers to remediate vulnerabilities
    • Sonatype's archaic architecture has made it more expensive to manage than it could be.
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