Mashery (now part of Boomi) vs. NGINX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Mashery, 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
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
Pricing
Mashery (now part of Boomi)NGINX
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Mashery (now part of Boomi)NGINX
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
Mashery (now part of Boomi)NGINX
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
6.9
23 Ratings
19% below category average
NGINX
-
Ratings
API access control8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.723 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data7.223 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding7.522 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning7.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging6.522 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
-
Ratings
NGINX
7.9
21 Ratings
1% below category average
IDE support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings7.318 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.216 Ratings
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User Ratings
Mashery (now part of Boomi)NGINX
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(23 ratings)
8.9
(48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Mashery (now part of Boomi)NGINX
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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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F5
[NGINX] is very well suited for high performance. I have seen it used on servers with 1k current connections with no issues. Despite seeing it used in many environments I've never seen software developers use it over apache, express, IIS in local dev environments so it may be more difficult to setup. I've also seen it used to load balance again without issues.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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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F5
  • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
  • Great at serving static content.
  • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
  • Open-Source (no cost)!
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • 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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F5
  • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
  • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
  • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
  • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
  • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Ease of use.
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F5
Great value for the product
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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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F5
Front end proxy and reverse proxy of Nginx is always useful. I always prefer to Nginx in overall usability when you have application server and database or multiple application servers and single database i.e. clustered application. Nginx provides really good features and flexibility which helps the system administrator in case of troubleshooting and also from the administration perspective. Also, Nginx doesn't delay any request because of internal performance issues.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Support has been good overall.
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F5
Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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F5
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Alternatives Considered
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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F5
We have used Traffic, Apache, Google Cloud Load Balancing and other managed cloud-based load balancers. When it comes to scale and customization nothing beats Nginx. We selected Nginx over the others because
  • we have a large number of services and we can manage a single Nginx instance for all of them
  • we have high impact services and Nginx never breaks a sweat under load
  • individual services have special considerations and Nginx lets us configure each one uniquely
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Return on Investment
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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F5
  • Nginx has decreased the burden of web server administration and maintenance, and we are spending less time on server issues than when we were using Apache.
  • Nginx has allowed more people in our company to get involved with configuring things on the web server, so there's no longer a single point of failure ("the Apache guy").
  • Nginx has given us the ability to handle a larger number of requests without scaling up in hardware quite so quickly.
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