NGINX Plus vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

F5 and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. F5 is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0. F5 holds a 10.2% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

NGINX Plus

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93% willing to recommend

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Oracle SOA Suite and NGINX Plus compete in enterprise integration and web performance management. Oracle SOA Suite offers more extensive integration features suitable for enterprise-level solutions, whereas NGINX Plus holds an edge in performance and ease of configuration under high loads.

Features: Oracle SOA Suite features extensive integration capabilities with in-built technology adapters, making it ideal for complex enterprise service implementations. It supports various middleware products and excels in scalability and performance. NGINX Plus, on the other hand, specializes in load balancing and reverse proxy functionalities, ensuring stability under high loads with a lightweight configuration, making it ideal for high-performance web applications.

Room for Improvement: Oracle SOA Suite users seek enhanced performance, simplified system complexity, and better integration tools, along with improvements in error handling and support systems. NGINX Plus could improve in areas like intuitive configuration, user-friendly interfaces, cluster management, and memory optimization.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle SOA Suite is predominantly on-premises due to its complex integration needs, though its customer service reviews are mixed. NGINX Plus is often deployed in hybrid and cloud environments, benefiting from its lightweight framework. Users generally find its support satisfactory but see room for improvement in responsiveness and technical expertise.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle SOA Suite is considered expensive with high initial costs, but its extensive features can justify the investment for large-scale integrations. NGINX Plus, offering a free version, can become costly with advanced features, yet users find it fairly priced relative to its performance, especially against the free open-source version.

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (6th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 10.2%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Michael Olayemi

Senior Software Engineer at Checkit

Enables public access and secure configurations through reverse proxy

The primary valuable feature of NGINX for me is its ability to provide a reverse proxy. I have found that this feature supports our local server, and I am able to connect through our DNS system, making it accessible publicly. Additionally, the integration with SSL certificates and the configuration capabilities make it a valuable solution for my use case. Without NGINX, users would not be able to access our application, which means there is positive ROI from using NGINX as it is crucial for the functioning of my organization.

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MANOHAR SADDALA

IT Specialist at Eagle Hills

Enables seamless integration with multiple systems

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It's not much more dynamic, not as dynamic as you may think, like seeing it in the cloud. In order to use it, you need to have the download servers and then scale up your systems. Oracle SOA Suites serves as a middle layer between applications. For example, let's say you have SAP, and we have Salesforce or Oracle ERP system. Users connect to those systems and perform certain activities or transactions on the applications. Now, if any data needs to be synchronized or any integration needs to happen between these applications, we use the Oracle SOA Suite. It acts as the bridge between the applications, not between the users. It's like having endpoints between the applications. Currently, we have 20 endpoints; 20 systems are connected to it, which is great. Oracle SOA Suite is being used daily. We are using it to its maximum potential.

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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

"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."

"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."

"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."

"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."

"The product is lightweight and fast."

"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."

"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."

"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."

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"Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier."

"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."

"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."

"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."

"What I like best about Oracle SOA Suite is Oracle support. I also like the tool features, especially the integration feature."

"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."

"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."

"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."

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Cons

"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."

"One area of improvement could be that NGINX could provide a means to generate self-signed SSL certificates."

"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."

"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."

"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."

"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "

"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."

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"An area for improvement in Oracle SOA Suite is the cost. It could be lower."

"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."

"SOA"

"I would like to see divided containers more separately as a microservice."

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue."

"The deployment could be made easier by including add-ons like Hudson and Maven."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."

"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."

"The cost is reasonable."

"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."

"NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it."

"NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. "

"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."

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"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"The product is moderately priced."

"Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."

"It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."

"The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."

"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."

"This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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What do you like most about NGINX Plus?

It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.

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What do you like most about Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.

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Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

NGINX

SOA Suite

Overview

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

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Sample Customers

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA

7-Eleven, Arcor SAIC, Banca Transilvania, Eaton Corporation, Emdeon, Ferrovial, Griffith University, National Instruments, Pella Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc,

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