We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server and Oracle Hotspot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."IBM WebSphere Application Server is the best in terms of scalability and performance, as well as the support for managing distributed transactions."
"Ease of administration: It has an Integrated Solutions Console, what we call the administrative console, with very detailed configurations and Help pages for each configurable item."
"The solution has good performance."
"We needed this type of integration and WebShepere is the best tool for it."
"High availability, alert management, and deployments are the most valuable features for us. We have the ND version so we can do deployments."
"The only reason why we're currently using WebSphere is that the integration of the authentication with Azure is very quick. WebSphere has something that can immediately connect with Azure Active Directory."
"One of the most valuable features might be the stability of the IBM WebSphere Application Server."
"IBM WAS is the backbone for our enterprise content management suite which delivers the primary processes for our customers. Without a good application server, it would be hard to provide a secure layer of midddleware upon which the other applications run. IBM WAS improves the stability of the entire solution and provides a high quality platform for running web-based solutions."
"The product is quite user-friendly."
"Sometimes, I feel WebSphere runs a bit slow. It might be loading unnecessary libraries, impacting its performance compared to other application servers."
"The footprint could be reduced so that we can use a smaller virtual machine to run the application. We could also use more scripts. I would like this solution to be more script oriented, rather than GUI oriented."
"The availability of the solution needs improvement."
"While WebSphere mostly supports IBM HTTP Server (IHS) as the web server plugin, I think it would be beneficial if it also supported Apache and NGINX web servers. That would give customers more flexibility in their choices."
"The installation has room for improvement."
"The licensing could be improved, and I would like it to give the longevity of the lifespan of the visions. In the next release, I would like to be able to download and extract the files so that I can just use my application server."
"It should be able to serve more concurrent requests like Oracle. Oracle has more powerful stability, availability, and real-time serving."
"IBM needs to pay attention to market changes more quickly. We now have Java 9 and very soon Java EE8. We do not want to wait for two or three years after their release until they are supported by the new version."
"There are some bugs in the solution that lead to breakdowns."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews while Oracle Hotspot is ranked 17th in Application Infrastructure with 1 review. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while Oracle Hotspot is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Hotspot writes "A scalable and user-friendly product that is useful for tracking leads for inbound marketing". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and IBM BPM, whereas Oracle Hotspot is most compared with Azul Zulu and Azul Zing.
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