Apache Web Server vs Oracle SOA Suite vs WebLogic Suite comparison

Apache and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Apache is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.8, while Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 6.3. Apache holds a 11.2% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Apache Web Server

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle SOA Suite

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1,556 Views
887 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

WebLogic Suite

Read 35 WebLogic Suite reviews

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689 Comparison Views

97% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Apache Web Server is 11.2%, up from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.8%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WebLogic Suite is 3.5%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sakthivel Veeramuthu

Technology Lead at Infosys

Easy to optimize for high performance and handle heavy traffic

Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours. Because I needed to optimize the Apache web server to run it as a high performer during my customers' usage, then I needed to reduce my Apache web server resource usage for that. So that part of the thing is what I was more interested in doing. So, I mainly liked the performance and security.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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Mari Pandian

Business Head - Enterprise Solutions at ImageGrafix Software FZCO

Coding flexibility with good integration but users need coding knowledge

We are an Oracle partner and work with many Oracle applications for integration purposes. WebLogic is used for integrating various Oracle applications and third-party services WebLogic allows us to do the coding as per the customer's requirements. It helps us meet their needs by integrating their…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most significant advantage is the ability to swiftly enable HTTPS services when my DNS is configured correctly."

"The best thing about Apache is that it is open-source, so implementing my platform on-premises is less expansive than other solutions."

"It is scalable."

"The product is very cheap and stable."

"It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."

"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."

"The solution's most valuable feature is reporting."

"The control panel is very easy to navigate. It's similar to most hosting platforms, so it's user-friendly. Once you get used to it, managing your hosting becomes easy, too."

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"The product provides transparency in finances."

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."

"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

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"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."

"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."

"WebLogic Suite functions well for enterprise organizations that can manage its costs and resource demands."

"This is a robust solution."

"WebLogic Suite provides a stable application server experience."

"It integrates well with other solutions."

"The product is reliable."

"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."

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Cons

"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."

"By optimizing the infrastructure to allow the webserver to directly handle queries from memory—particularly by prioritizing the storage of queries in memory and processing them through the web server interface—I could potentially cut down the required instances from five hundred to two hundred."

"The major issue occurs with ports. So, I would like to see easier port management."

"So far, for us, everything is okay."

"The interface has room for improvement."

"Adding a reverse proxy to Apache Web Server would be a significant improvement."

"Lacks integration with some cloud solutions."

"In future releases, I would like to see better server optimization."

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"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."

"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."

"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

"SOA"

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."

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"Compared to Apache and Microsoft platform products, WebLogic Suite has implementation complexity."

"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."

"I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."

"I think the support could be much better."

"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."

"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."

"Support could be better. The expertise when we have some Oracle WebLogic issues and challenges is not there. The issues are not being addressed in time. This really needs to be improved going forward."

"There are sometimes issues with clusters."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source solution."

"There is no licensing cost for the product."

"It is a free-of-cost solution."

"The apache software is free, open-source."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"The product is moderately priced."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"Scaling is costly."

"The product comes bundled with Oracle Premier Support."

"Technical support is very costly."

"The cost of the WebLogic Suite license is a bit high."

"There is a license required for this solution and the price could be reduced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

University

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Web Server?

The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Web Server?

Apache Web Server is a free product, with no associated setup costs or licensing fees.

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What needs improvement with Apache Web Server?

There is no need for substantial improvements as we have a dedicated team managing the server, ensuring everything ru...

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What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't...

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What do you like most about WebLogic Suite?

The solution is useful for centralizing data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WebLogic Suite?

WebLogic Suite is high-priced, akin to a Lamborghini. Its affordability suits enterprise-level organizations with dig...

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What needs improvement with WebLogic Suite?

One area for improvement in WebLogic Suite is the installation time. Otherwise, there are no other disadvantages, and...

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Also Known As

Apache HTTP Server

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Overview

The Apache HTTP Server Project was founded in 1995 by a group of webmasters, known as The Apache Group, with the aim of developing robust, richly-featured, freely-available and commercial-standard Web (HTTP) server source code. The result was Apache Web Server or Apache HTTP Server, which is an open-source public-domain web server.

This collaborative project has been enhanced ever since with contributions from the core development team and other volunteers situated all over the globe. Also, hundreds of users of this open-source web server have contributed code, ideas, and documentation. The project falls under The Apache Software Foundation, which manages many open-source projects.

Apache

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

Oracle

Oracle WebLogic Suite is an integrated solution for building onpremise cloud application infrastructures that span web server, application server and data grid technology tiers. It includes Oracle WebLogic Server, an application server for developing and deploying applications across conventional and cloud environments, Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Web Tier, Oracle TopLink, Oracle Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder, and other component technologies.

Oracle

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