NGINX Plus vs Oracle SOA Suite comparison

F5 and Oracle are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.4. F5 holds a 10.8% 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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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

2nd

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 May 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 10.8%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SOA Suite is 3.9%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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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

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

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"The primary valuable feature of NGINX for me is its ability to provide a reverse proxy."

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

"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."

"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."

"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."

"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."

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"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."

"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."

"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."

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

"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."

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

"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."

"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."

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Cons

"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."

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

"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."

"The user interface could be improved."

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

"The center management system could be improved."

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

"The scalability could be improved."

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

"SOA"

"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."

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

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

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

"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."

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

"The cost is reasonable."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."

"The product is moderately priced."

"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."

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Computer Software Company

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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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