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IBM WebSphere Message Broker vs Oracle Service Bus comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. IBM is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.4. IBM holds a 3.9% mindshare in E, compared to Oracle’s 11.7% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.
IBM WebSphere Message Broker
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84% willing to recommend
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94% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Oracle Service Bus and IBM WebSphere Message Broker compete in the integration and middleware domain. Oracle Service Bus seems to have the upper hand due to its simplicity and versatility in various integration scenarios, despite similar support challenges.

Features: Oracle Service Bus is light, simple to learn, and excels in integration via robust adapters and connectors. It offers strong routing, aggregation, and stability. IBM WebSphere Message Broker is valued for integration capabilities with large-scale transactions and legacy systems, providing reliable and secure data integration and processing.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Service Bus faces challenges with RESTful service compatibility, scalability, and a complex licensing model. It also needs more cloud-based adapter offerings. IBM WebSphere Message Broker should reduce its complexity, enhance decoupling from IBM MQ, and address high costs and GUI performance issues.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OSB offers flexibility across environments with hybrid and public clouds, although users experience slow support response times and licensing difficulties. IBM WebSphere Message Broker primarily supports on-premises deployment with similar support issues and needs better response times and resolutions.

Pricing and ROI: OSB is considered expensive but offers enterprise agreements with cost savings, although its pricing model is challenging. IBM WebSphere Message Broker is also high-cost, often deterring potential customers. Both products have indeterminate ROI but are noted for their reliability in scaling and operations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM WebSphere Message Broker
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (16th)
Oracle Service Bus
Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is 3.9%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Service Bus is 11.7%, up from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

BrajendraKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers large-sized business information processing with a time-saving setup and impressive stability
I primarily use two previews of the product for Dev and two for QA as part of the production process. Whatever tools our company is using, the cost of a license in IBM WebSphere Message Broker is about 80% of all these software or tools. The message routing capabilities satisfy workflow efficiency. The product supports message formats of XML, JSON, and SSID, which are around 24 KB to 50 KB in size. The solution supports communication protocols like STTP and TCP. Features like DataGraph need to be introduced in IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Some of the clients of our organization are using an outdated version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker for which the vendor doesn't provide direct support anymore. For the aforementioned version, our company professionals can solve the queries on their own without seeking support from IBM. During the installation of a prior version of IBM WebSphere Message Broker, sometimes I have to configure the failovers through the cluster, where issues arise, and I often seek help from the support team. The solution is being used by some medicine companies in our organization that receive sales orders from the EDR or JDE. I would not recommend the product to others as its becoming obsolete and they can rather choose a middleware solution from Amazon or Azure. But I would overall rate the product a nine out of ten.
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Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows seamless integration and connectivity with different types of systems
I would suggest using this solution. Oracle Service Bus is very good. Any organization can use it. So it's very robust and scalable, and its security features are very good. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten because there are some loopholes in service and support. Sometimes, when we have issues and go to Oracle support, they will not give us solutions. Instead, they will ask for so many log files and emails. The product is good, but the support is not.
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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

"It has many interfaces and you can connect to any backend source that has another format, and convert it to the desired format."
"Straightforward development and deployment."
"Performance-wise, this solution is really good."
"The documentation, performance, stability and scalability of the tool are valuable."
"The transactions and message queuing are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The solution has good integration."
"It's reliable for our day-to-day operations, ensuring fast and secure data integration across different systems."
"The most valuable feature of IBM WebSphere Message Broker is the ability to facilitate communication with legacy systems, offering a multitude of great capabilities. For example, if there is a mainframe system in place with a web service serving as the front end. In that case, the solution enables efficient protocol transformations to convert all request payloads into a format that the legacy systems can accept, rendering the integration and transformation processes seamless and highly effective."
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"Service Bus is good at routing the transformation."
"API management and defining varying protocols are the most valuable features"
"The main advantage of Oracle Service Bus is the possibility to integrate different systems using workflows and different architectures in the same product."
"It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or web services through different protocols."
"The solution integrates external systems by providing a lot of APIs for external transactions, such as open purchase orders and sales orders."
"It is stable."
"We've been pleased with the level of technical support."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It's very easy to use. It's no code/low code. Oracle Middleware products are also rich in adapters."
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Cons

"The user interface is designed mainly for experts, much in the way a BPM or another integration tool is."
"Technical support is good but they could have a better response time."
"Technical support is very slow and needs to be improved."
"The solution can add container engines such as docker."
"As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordingly."
"There is some lag in the GUI. There have been some performance issues and maybe it's because of the application data."
"Stability and pricing are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The product's features are not being upgraded or enhanced by the vendor"
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"The connectivity with the solution is an area that needs to be improved. On occasion, requests are lost due to losing connectivity."
"The weak point of OSB is the single point of failure."
"The consolidation functionality is minimal, lacking advanced features for complex integrations."
"The error-handling capability can be improved"
"The pricing of the product could be better. It's a bit high."
"There are some loopholes in service and support."
"If they can containerize this, that would be nice. If they can provide docker images and offer support for those containers, that would be great."
"The initial setup is likely complex for many organizations."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time."
"I feel with IBM, when you want certain functions or features, you have to continuously purchase add-ons. There are always additional fees."
"The price is very high and it's the main reason that we are searching for alternatives."
"The licensing cost of IBM WebSphere Message Broker needs to be reduced"
"IBM products are generally more stable and have more features, but also come at a greater cost."
"This product is more expensive than competing products."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"The price of this solution is better than the subscription-based Mule ESB."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"This is a very expensive product and the price varies depending on factors such as the number of processors and the number of users. Our licensing fees are approximately $300,000."
"Oracle Service Bus is a bit expensive"
"I'm not aware of how much Oracle Service Bus costs."
"We have an unlimited yearly license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM WebSphere Message Broker?
It is a scalable solution...The setup is easy.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM WebSphere Message Broker?
IBM software can be costly, but having a contract has helped manage and potentially lower costs over time.
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What needs improvement with IBM WebSphere Message Broker?
There could be greater flexibility and agility in service creation for the product. As our business requirements evolve, we require more dynamic capabilities to adapt and scale our services accordi...
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What do you like most about Oracle Service Bus?
The stability is consistently high, with only one notable issue encountered.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Service Bus?
Oracle Service Bus is expensive but provides value for money. The pricing is comparative to IBM offerings.
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What needs improvement with Oracle Service Bus?
The microservices portion of Oracle Service Bus needs some improvement. Compared to MuleSoft, MuleSoft is much easier to use and deploy than what is currently available in Oracle Service Bus.
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Overview

WebSphere Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. It allows businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.
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Oracle Service Bus transforms complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, virtualizing, and managing interactions between services and applications. Oracle Service Bus delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for mission critical SOA environments where extreme performance, scalability and reliability are critical requirements.

Oracle Service Bus enables companies to use the values of their enterprise applications portfolio. From on-premise, to the cloud to mobile devices, Service Bus allows companies to leverage their existing investments in new ways by extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA and API Management.

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Sample Customers

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