IBM Integration Bus vs. LinqConnect

IBM Integration Bus

24 Reviews and Ratings

LinqConnect

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Integration Bus	Score10 out of 10	N/A	IBM Integration Bus, replacing the former WebSphere Message Broker, is used to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity helps to ensure diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure.	N/A
LinqConnect	Score8 out of 10	N/A	LinqConnect is a LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution with extended functionality, support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, its own visual model designer, seamlessly integrating to Visual Studio, and SQL monitoring tool. The software creates a mapping model, generates data access layer code and supports complex types, with an ability to create entity properties with internal structure. LinqConnect caches compiled queries automatically, while allowing users to set cache…	$149.95

Pricing

IBM Integration Bus

LinqConnect

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Standard Edition: $149.95
Metro Edition: $199.95
Silverlight Edition: $199.95
Windows Phone Edition: $199.95
Professional Edition: $249.95

Pricing Offerings
IBM Integration Bus	LinqConnect
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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User Ratings
	IBM Integration Bus	LinqConnect
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Integration Bus	LinqConnect
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Routing, protocol transformation, message transformation and service aggregation are very well performed by WebSphere Message Broker (WMB). It is not very suitable for integration with databases. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Devart Whenever relational data access is required. Really there is no limit: instead of using the specific driver and writing custom code you just include LinqConnect and map the model. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	IBM Graphical data mapper Support for different programming languages Integration with MQ Support for different parsers Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Devart No answers on this topic
Cons	IBM Logging Debugging Code quality tools Feature specific installation Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Devart No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	IBM Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool. Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Devart No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	IBM It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs. Learning curve is quite long Incentivized Srinivasa Manne Principal Software Engineer Developer Read full review	Devart No answers on this topic
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