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Azul Zing vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Azul Zing
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
12th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
AI Customer Experience Personalization (24th)
Oracle SOA Suite
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Azul Zing is 2.8%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 4.9%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SOA Suite4.9%
Azul Zing2.8%
Other92.3%
Application Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

Mohakhan Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Technical Expert at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real-time charging has stayed consistent and cuts GC incidents while reducing cloud costs
The best features Azul Zing offers include no stop-the-world during the full GC. No stop-the-world pauses during full GC, and we hit higher TPS with fewer JVMs -- a real win for maintenance and cost. As an online charging system, we can't afford crashes or latency spikes. Before Zing, JVMs would hang and drop from the grid on missed heartbeats. GC tuning is also out-of-the-box -- no more time consuming manual tuning like with Oracle/OpenJDK with no significant outcome.
Debjit Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Cognizant
Has enabled complex data flow management but faces limitations with modern integration needs
There are areas of Oracle SOA Suite I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future, particularly regarding its adapter capabilities. The popularity of Oracle Integration Cloud nowadays arises from its larger set of adapter capabilities, including numerous application adapters. In contrast, Oracle SOA Suite provides a limited number of adapters. I would like to see more REST-based features added to Oracle SOA Suite, currently lacking, along with an enhancement of file size or payload capability, as the existing limitation is a 10 MB payload size. Additionally, Oracle SOA Suite licensing cost tends to be higher, adhering to a fixed pricing model rather than a pay-per-use basis, which might not be suitable for smaller organizations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"GC Pause times are maintained in low milliseconds, which is beneficial for applications with high volume, high memory allocation rate, and a high memory footprint, and it also increases throughput by approximately 20-25% as compared to Oracle Java Development Kit based on some tests that I have done with real applications."
"Performance of the JVM, especially the C4 Pauseless Garbage Collection, for continuous application execution is the most valuable feature."
"The non-stop garbage collector (C4 - Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector) is the most valuable feature."
"With minimal effort, Zing has helped us improve our latency performance dramatically."
"With Zing, we've now been able to re-allocate those tuning resources to general product development."
"With minimal effort, Zing has helped us improve our latency performance dramatically."
"After using Azul Zing, it is almost a zero-incident situation because of the GCs."
"No other JVM on the market even comes close to competing with the Azul Zing."
"In the company I work, we specialize in integration solutions, and with this, we are able to perform quick deliveries and clients are happy that their time to market is reduced."
"Oracle SOA Suite has been a rock solid enterprise-level tool for many years, with scalability and capacity growth as fundamental principles that enable implementations supporting millions of transactions per day, hundreds of trading partners, and hundreds of web services and APIs."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"We have figured out that SOA Suite 12c currently offers the richest functionalities and is the best integrated product."
"My advice is to buy it and use it."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"One example of how this product has improved my organization functions is in the shortening of the development time to market in delivering custom solutions."
"Overall, it's a mature and complete platform, ideal for implementing high-quality business solutions."
 

Cons

"The profiling tools included with Zing lag behind those available for Oracle's Java implementation."
"It is extremely expensive."
"We have encounter stability issues and that has been a source of frustration at times."
"Although Azul claims to have a fast warmup, we still experience higher latency for the first trade when our system starts up on Sundays."
"Although Azul claims to have a fast warmup, we still experience higher latency for the first trade when our system starts up on Sundays."
"The licensing over non-production environments considerably affects the cost of our solution as a software vendor."
"However, like every other great product, there is always something that can be improved."
"If there are some that are still in development or whatever, such as the Salesforce one, then you should probably consider something else."
"There is a dashboard available in SOA Suite, and it's called BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), however, very often, clients need more customization, and this is limited."
"Its function options can be improved."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"There are networking and firewall issues that tend to delay our projects."
"We faced some issues, particularly in clustered environments."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The biggest challenge is getting useful information to troubleshoot when something goes wrong."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."
"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
"The product is moderately priced."
"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."
"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."
"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise41
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?
The setup cost of Oracle SOA Suite is relatively high since various components, including database licenses, WebLogic licenses, VM costs, and SOA licenses based on enterprise and Oracle negotiation...
What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?
There are areas of Oracle SOA Suite I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future, particularly regarding its adapter capabilities. The popularity of Oracle Integration Cloud nowadays aris...
What is your primary use case for Oracle SOA Suite?
I can describe several use cases for Oracle SOA Suite; it is fundamentally a middleware product. In software architecture, we refer to it as middleware. Middleware is an application that lies betwe...
 

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