We performed a comparison between Apiary and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others in API Management."I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"API Connect's data gateway is one of the strongest in the market."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it protects our backend system. We are exposing services to external parties and using this solution to protect the backend system, and to have a navigation in between."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"This solution is ready to scale and already supports our agile CICD."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"Documentation for the CLI is not very complete. Also, the support could be improved, and we have had several problems with backing up and restoring the product."
"It needs to be less taxing on compute resources."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"One thing about API Connect that could be improved is the security schemes. There are so many security schemes, and from a product perspective, IBM could improve the user experience of the configuration security scheme."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"The product's setup phase and its setup for the users in different environments, along with DevOps integration, are areas of concern where there is a need for improvement."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway.
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