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 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.0. F5 holds a 9.6% mindshare in AIS, compared to Oracle’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

NGINX Plus

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86% 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

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (7th)

Oracle SOA Suite

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 9.6%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NGINX Plus	9.6%
Oracle SOA Suite	3.6%
Other	86.8%

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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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Debjit Ghosh

Manager at Cognizant

Has enabled complex data flow management but faces limitations with modern integration needs

There are areas of Oracle SOA Suite I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future, particularly regarding its adapter capabilities. The popularity of Oracle Integration Cloud nowadays arises from its larger set of adapter capabilities, including numerous application adapters. In contrast, Oracle SOA Suite provides a limited number of adapters. I would like to see more REST-based features added to Oracle SOA Suite, currently lacking, along with an enhancement of file size or payload capability, as the existing limitation is a 10 MB payload size. Additionally, Oracle SOA Suite licensing cost tends to be higher, adhering to a fixed pricing model rather than a pay-per-use basis, which might not be suitable for smaller organizations.

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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

"This solution has everything."

"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."

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

"The product is lightweight and fast."

"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."

"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."

"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."

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

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"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."

"The integration with various products."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

"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."

"The product provides transparency in finances."

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

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

"I found the adapters to be most useful."

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Cons

"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."

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

"Initially, I experienced hiccups whenever I installed the application."

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

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

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

"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."

"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."

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"The Maven integration in JDeveloper is very basic and might be enhanced to allow the proper use of Maven."

"The solutions can improve the communication or translations between formats, such as JSON and XML. The JSON REST API could improve."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"It's also not developer-friendly."

"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."

"The technical support is good, we have premier support which costs extra."

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

"One area that could be better is the human task feature. It could be improved to provide more functionality and customization options because it has limited options available."

More Oracle SOA Suite cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."

"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. "

"The solution is free, but you can spend a lot of money with a complex solution."

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

"You pay for each feature that you want."

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

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"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."

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

"The product is moderately priced."

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

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

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

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	41

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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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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