IBM Integration Bus vs. WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Integration Bus
Score 8.3 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
WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
Score 7.1 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
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Anypoint Platform
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Integration BusWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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7.5
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Usability
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6.0
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Availability
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2.0
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Performance
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6.0
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Support Rating
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7.0
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Configurability
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5.0
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
IBM Integration BusWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
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.
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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
IBM
  • Graphical data mapper
  • Support for different programming languages
  • Integration with MQ
  • Support for different parsers
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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
IBM
  • Logging
  • Debugging
  • Code quality tools
  • Feature specific installation
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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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Usability
IBM
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WSO2
Compared to competitors the overall experience has been fine
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
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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
IBM
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WSO2
The product is performing well and consuming few resources
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Support Rating
IBM
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WSO2
Our experience with the WSO2 support has beent satisfactory
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
Websphere message broker supports a lot more protocols than any other similar tool.
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WSO2
It's the only one truly open source and free.
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Scalability
IBM
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WSO2
Adding a server node is really straightforward, there are just few point in the configuration files.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • It helped us in improving the speed to market for our services/APIs.
  • Learning curve is quite long
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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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