We performed a comparison between IIS and Oracle GlassFish based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Apache, Red Hat and others in Application Server."IIS's most valuable feature is user-friendliness."
"The solution is very simple to use and easy to deploy."
"The initial setup of IIS is easy. The process takes only five minutes."
"The solution is the easiest way to publish applications which have been designed by older development tools."
"We use the solution for our customer's web applications."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is it does not consume a lot of resources. It does not consume a lot of resources, such as memory."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is the database it provides."
"The products offers EE support."
"Performance-wise, certain improvements in IIS are needed...IIS is not scalable. Its scalability is less."
"The tool needs to improve its performance."
"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."
"This solution needs to be easier for cases where you want to have an IIS cluster."
"IIS needs to improve its security. Its support needs to be faster and clear. The tool's licensing could be cheaper as well."
"The cost is a bit too high."
"The documentation is not very detailed. They need to improve it and add to it. They should ensure there are lots of visuals to help users better understand the solution."
"It lacks a few performance improvement tools."
"I would like to see integration with MQ systems."
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IIS is ranked 4th in Application Server with 53 reviews while Oracle GlassFish is ranked 9th in Application Server. IIS is rated 8.0, while Oracle GlassFish is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle GlassFish writes "Offers EE Support. I would like to see integration with MQ systems". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server and Tomcat, whereas Oracle GlassFish is most compared with JBoss, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
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