Item: Mendix
Rating: 9
Author: Menno de Haas

Overall Satisfaction with Mendix

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In general, we apply Mendix when time-to-market for software development is short (for instance during product innovations) and requirements for flexibility are high.

If we develop web applications or mobile applications for consumer end-users, we often use Mendix as a backend that exposes APIs for websites or mobile applications.

Alternatively, when Mendix is used internally in companies, we use the Mendix front-end framework to build a web-based application.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Speed of development
Deployment options
Technical support

Cons

Memory management
Flexibility to improve application performance through query optimization
Apply custom monitoring tool (only beta available)

Return on Investment

Fast development of new features

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Application Express

Mendix is more user-friendly for development, less custom code required.

Other Software Used

Dell Boomi API Management, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), IBM Cloud PaaS (formerly IBM Bluemix - PaaS), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), StopLight

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate to use as a Swiss army knife as it can build beautiful CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) applications within hours, but don't expect Mendix to perform well in specific niche setups. For instance, high throughput queues.

When application performance (high traffic and/or low latency) becomes very important, consider custom development or apply other services to handle the load, for instance, other AWS services.

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Mendix is an easy-to-use platform for rapid software development