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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kubernetes

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AKubernetes is an open-source container cluster manager.N/A

    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 says they have taken a fresh look at old-style, centralized ESB architectures, and designed their unique WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus from the ground up as the highest performance, lowest footprint, and most interoperable service oriented architecture (SOA) and integration middleware today. Additionally, the vendor says that by relying on their carbon technology the ESB is able to deliver a smooth start-to-finish project experience.N/A
    Pricing
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Considered Both Products
    Kubernetes
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    WSO2
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
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    Features
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Kubernetes and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Feature
    Kubernetes
    9.3
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration9.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management9.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Management8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mule ESB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM DataPower Gateway
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (19 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KubernetesWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kubernetes
    K8s should be avoided - If your application works well without being converted into microservices-based architecture & fits correctly in a VM, needs less scaling, have a fixed traffic pattern then it is better to keep away from Kubernetes. Otherwise, the operational challenges & technical expertise will add a lot to the OPEX. Also, if you're the one who thinks that containers consume fewer resources as compared to VMs then this is not true. As soon as you convert your application to a microservice-based architecture, a lot of components will add up, shooting your resource consumption even higher than VMs so, please beware. Kubernetes is a good choice - When the application needs quick scaling, is already in microservice-based architecture, has no fixed traffic pattern, most of the employees already have desired skills.
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    WSO2
    WSO2 ESB is an awesome product for companies looking to venture into the world of SOA with an ESB. They have a lot of other products too that can work really well with their carbon infrastructure. The interface is simple for deploying and managing proxy services. You can also write custom modules within the ESB using Java with IDE like Eclipse
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    Pros
    Kubernetes
    • Complex cluster management can be done with simple commands with strong authentication and authorization schemes
    • Exhaustive documentation and open community smoothens the learning process
    • As a user a few concepts like pod, deployment and service are sufficient to go a long way
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    WSO2
    • One of the basic requirement of an ESB product is that it should be able to support transformation. WSO2 ESB provides support of XSLT, so you can transform your request to whatever format. Moreover, transformations like converting your xml payload into JSON and JSON payload to XML are out of the box available.
    • WSO2 ESB provides a scheduler feature, by which you can configure your own scheduler to call a proxy service at a particular time of day or or initiate sequence.
    • WSO2 ESB provides excellent error handling techniques, WSO2 ESB provides detailed error handling scenarios to tackle all the situations. WSO2 ESB also provides custom error handling by which you can make your own custom error message before sending it back to client.
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    Cons
    Kubernetes
    • Local development, Kubernetes does tend to be a bit complicated and unnecessary in environments where all development is done locally.
    • The need for add-ons, Helm is almost required when running Kubernetes. This brings a whole new tool to manage and learn before a developer can really start to use Kubernetes effectively.
    • Finicy configmap schemes. Kubernetes configmaps often have environment breaking hangups. The fail safes surrounding configmaps are sadly lacking.
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    WSO2
    • While it's easy to configure for a quick start, it is not so easy to deploy by yourself in a complex production scenario.
    • Not very stable for production usage, we encountered several trivial bugs that make us believe that this product is still not widely adopted.
    • Lack of a built in mechanism for auto-restart in case of an application server crash.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kubernetes
    The Kubernetes is going to be highly likely renewed as the technologies that will be placed on top of it are long term as of planning. There shouldn't be any last minute changes in the adoption and I do not anticipate sudden change of the core underlying technology. It is just that the slow process of technology adoption that makes it hard to switch to something else.
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    WSO2
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kubernetes
    It is an eminently usable platform. However, its popularity is overshadowed by its complexity. To properly leverage the capabilities and possibilities of Kubernetes as a platform, you need to have excellent understanding of your use case, even better understanding of whether you even need Kubernetes, and if yes - be ready to invest in good engineering support for the platform itself
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    WSO2
    Compared to competitors the overall experience has been fine
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kubernetes
    No answers on this topic
    WSO2
    Lack of auto-restart built-in capabilities. In case of running out of memory there are no built-in methods to recover from a crash, just for example, Oracle WebLogic Node Manager.
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    Performance
    Kubernetes
    No answers on this topic
    WSO2
    The product is performing well and consuming few resources
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    Support Rating
    Kubernetes
    No answers on this topic
    WSO2
    Our experience with the WSO2 support has beent satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kubernetes
    Most of the required features for any orchestration tool or framework, which is provided by Kubernetes. After understanding all modules and features of the K8S, it is the best fit for us as compared with others out there.
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    WSO2
    It's the only one truly open source and free.
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    Scalability
    Kubernetes
    No answers on this topic
    WSO2
    Adding a server node is really straightforward, there are just few point in the configuration files.
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    Return on Investment
    Kubernetes
    • Because of microservices, Kubernetes makes it easy to find the cost of each application easily.
    • Like every new technology, initially, it took more resources to educate ourselves but over a period of time, I believe it's going to be worth it.
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    WSO2
    • Very well documented tutorials and case studies makes it easy to learn.
    • It has a really supportive community
    • It is fast and it can easily handle 300 tps of average use on a VM with 4Gig RAM
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