NGINX Plus vs. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Plus
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.
$849
per month billed annually
Red Hat JBoss EAP
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Pricing
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Editions & Modules
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss EAP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Features
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Plus
8.1
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
6.8
9 Ratings
15% below category average
IDE support7.94 Ratings6.09 Ratings
Security management8.04 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Administration and management8.25 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Application server performance8.04 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Installation8.25 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance8.35 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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User Ratings
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(6 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(3 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
5.2
(2 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINX PlusRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
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Red Hat
JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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Pros
F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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Red Hat
  • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
  • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
  • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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Cons
F5
  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available
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Red Hat
  • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
  • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
  • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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Red Hat
We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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Usability
F5
Very easy to use
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Red Hat
JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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Performance
F5
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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Support Rating
F5
We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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Red Hat
Fast response.
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Alternatives Considered
F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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Red Hat
We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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Return on Investment
F5
  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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Red Hat
  • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
  • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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