We performed a comparison between Mule Anypoint Platform and Spring Cloud Data Flow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business-to-Business Middleware solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is very user-friendly."
"API management."
"It is very easy to use for building connectors. It comes with a lot of connectors. For example, it has different adapters for NetSuite, which are very easy to use. It also has Salesforce connectors. The object store feature is also really easy to use. Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"Mule Anypoint Platform's valuable features are its flexibility in terms of deployment and its SaaS capabilities."
"This is a good platform for designing, flowing out APIs, and then doing API-based integrations."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a huge list of available connectors for a lot of different platforms, which we can use very easily."
"The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."
"There are a lot of options in Spring Cloud. It's flexible in terms of how we can use it. It's a full infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Spring Cloud Data Flow are the simple programming model, integration, dependency Injection, and ability to do any injection. Additionally, auto-configuration is another important feature because we don't have to configure the database and or set up the boilerplate in the database in every project. The composability is good, we can create small workloads and compose them in any way we like."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The pricing can be a little bit less."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
"There is not much information on the internet...The transforming message is an area in the solution that needs to be improved."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"I would like to see some data integration and automation."
"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."
"Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving."
"Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve the user interface. We can drag and drop in the application for the configuration and settings, and deploy it right from the UI, without having to run a CI/CD pipeline. However, that does not work with Kubernetes, it only works when we are working with jars as the Spring Cloud Data Flow applications."
Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 2nd in Business-to-Business Middleware with 40 reviews while Spring Cloud Data Flow is ranked 29th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2, while Spring Cloud Data Flow is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring Cloud Data Flow writes "Provides ease of integration with other cloud platforms ". Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and Confluent, whereas Spring Cloud Data Flow is most compared with Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark Streaming, Azure Data Factory and Confluent. See our Mule Anypoint Platform vs. Spring Cloud Data Flow report.
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