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 8.1, while Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 5.0. F5 holds a 10.1% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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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) (7th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 10.1%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.8%, down from 4.3% 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

"The overall product rating is ten out of ten."

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

"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."

"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."

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"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."

"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."

"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."

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"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."

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

"The new product has come out with SOA Cloud Service and Integration Analytics as well, which gives more options for clients to pick their point of requirements."

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

"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"It performs better in real-time transactions."

"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."

"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."

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Cons

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

"The center management system could be improved."

"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."

"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "

"Initially, I experienced hiccups whenever I installed the application. As with any application, there were initial issues, however, after receiving support, everything was rectified."

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

"The user interface could be improved."

"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."

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

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

"The interface is too complicated. Making modifications still requires too much technical knowledge."

"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."

"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."

"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."

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is reasonable."

"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. "

"You pay for each feature that you want."

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

"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."

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

"It's an open source solution, so it's free."

"The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours."

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"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"The product is moderately priced."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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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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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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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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