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OCI API Management vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OCI API Management

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive set of services to manage the lifecycle of APIs (application programming interfaces). The built-in tools let developers to collaborate on prototyping, testing, and validating APIs.

    $3

    per month per 1 Million API calls

    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ASupported by SmartBear, Swagger is a set of tools used by developers to design, document, build, and test APIs in the OpenAPI Specification.N/A
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    Pricing Offerings
    OCI API ManagementSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    OCI API ManagementSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of OCI API Management and Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Feature
    OCI API Management
    8.6
    15 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    API access control7.915 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.814 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API usage data9.015 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.814 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API versioning9.014 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments8.815 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.015 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    OCI API ManagementSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Small Businesses
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Postman
    Score8.7 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OCI API ManagementSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OCI API ManagementSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is well suited in a business or company that make use of Apis to facilitate access of backend services and data sources by the staff or customers or both. It is also imported in situations where all actions in a system need to be attributed to specific users.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    To my opinion Swagger Open Source is a very good tool to quickly produce an api documentation, that how I use it.Swagger can also produce an open api file to generate an api for our application server (Inersystems Iris) but we don't use this functionality for now. We plan to use more Swagger features in the future.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • API Manager allows for REST and SOAP API's to be easily created and tracked
    • API Manager allows for only certain people/applications to use the API (does this thru a subscriber service it provides)
    • It also publishes the API's it is tracking so developers can easily know what interfaces already exist.
    • The monitoring ability is a nice feature. The admin person can easily see how and where the APIs are currently being used
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    SmartBear
    • Produce documentation
    • user interface to create api definition
    • reusability of data description
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Absence of Role-Based Access. A finer grain control on what type of users can call certain API Endpoints is needed.
    • Performance with third-party databases isn't as fast as using Oracle Database.
    • Long learning curve. Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, a certain level of expertise is required to effectively make use of them.
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    SmartBear
    • for me the UI can be more simple
    • too many functionnalities when just want to produce doc, can be a separate app
    • A french documentation will be apreciated
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is much easier to learn and understand then IBM Data Power Gateway and IBM API Connect. We selected Oracle API Manager in our company because to have a good intuitive interface with drag and drop features and because beginners and easily get up to speed to use this tool.
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    SmartBear
    We use swagger only to generate the API documentation, for testing the APIs, we use Postman. We don't find an other tools for producing API documentation in web pages and also in pdf files. Postman is a good complement for testing APIs on InterSystems IRIS (a powerful application server and DB manager) which implements these APIs.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Oracle API Manager supports both REST & SOAP API's.
    • Secure and attributable connection to back-end services and data sources. In addition to creating API's for querying data, you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in the back-end databases.
    • Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, to start with it is really important you train your people working on development, deployment and administrators to effectively use Oracle API Manager.
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    SmartBear
    • Less time to produce our documentation
    • Documentation can be accessed online, this is a plus for our customers and partners
    • Great tools to communicate with other project actors
    Incentivized
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