We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable solution."
"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"The solution is robust."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
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"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"Its support services could be better."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"It is a costly product."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM WebSphere Application Server, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. NGINX Plus report.
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