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Oracle Fusion Middleware vs Tomcat comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Oracle Fusion Middleware offers significant ROI, with some organizations saving 20% by prioritizing essential security investments and assessments.
Sentiment score
8.7
Tomcat delivers quick ROI with minimal investment, offering scalability, ease of deployment, and significant time and cost savings.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a good product that meets ROI expectations.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
Oracle Fusion Middleware support is effective but needs process efficiency, faster response for non-critical issues, and improved communication.
Sentiment score
6.3
Tomcat's support relies heavily on community and documentation, with limited formal assistance but effective community engagement and consultation services.
Oracle provides eight-level customer service and support.
Customer service for Oracle products, including Oracle Fusion Middleware, is rated at nine points out of ten, indicating it is quite satisfactory.
They are proactive in looking into the tickets we create in case we have unresolved queries.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Oracle Fusion Middleware is highly scalable, efficient for large users, with potential complexities in virtual machine reliance and management.
Sentiment score
7.6
Tomcat offers high scalability and adaptability, excelling in cloud environments with positive user feedback on its reliability.
For on-premises deployment, scalability has to be managed manually.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Oracle Fusion Middleware is praised for its stability and improved performance, despite initial deployment challenges and past minor issues.
Sentiment score
7.9
Tomcat is stable and reliable for small applications, needing careful configuration and updates for optimal performance with high traffic.
Overall, Oracle Fusion Middleware's stability is good.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle Fusion Middleware needs UI, integration, and documentation improvements, enhanced support, and cost-effectiveness with containerization and customization flexibility.
Tomcat struggles with compatibility, scalability, speed, unfriendly interface, high memory use, and needs better security, documentation, and performance.
The guides often have errors, such as web scripting issues, and can be difficult to follow.
Although Oracle provides support, I need the appropriate IT team to adopt these new features.
Tomcat needs a more robust logging error details feature; the current logging feature is available, but it should be more user-friendly.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle Fusion Middleware is costly, suited for large organizations; starting small and expanding recommended due to accumulating annual costs.
Tomcat is cost-effective, open-source, with potential additional costs for licenses and optional paid support services.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is generally expensive, although I'm not directly involved with the licensing aspects.
Pricing varies from customer to customer, however, it is reasonable compared to other products in the market.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle Fusion Middleware offers scalable, flexible integration with advanced AI features, seamless connectivity, and compatibility within Oracle's ecosystem.
Tomcat is popular for its lightweight, high performance, scalability, and open-source compatibility, ideal for Java-based applications.
Compared to competitors, its cost-effectiveness and Oracle's regular updates every three months are advantageous.
Oracle Fusion Middleware's base installation is ready to use, allowing for quick integration of applications and installation of necessary resources.
The advantages of Tomcat include its flexibility; we can increase the heap memory and the size of sessions as per our custom needs.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Fusion Middleware
Ranking in Application Server
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tomcat
Ranking in Application Server
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Application Server category, the mindshare of Oracle Fusion Middleware is 5.5%, up from 5.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tomcat is 19.4%, down from 20.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Server
 

Featured Reviews

Sai Kri - PeerSpot reviewer
Migration to a modern interface enhances AI integration and cloud capabilities
Presently, Oracle recommends migrating to Oracle Fusion since it's a hot product now. e-Business Suite may soon be sunsetted and has an outdated UI, with few upgrades. In contrast, Oracle Fusion offers modern features, such as AI, cloud-based applications, and customization options like Redwood features. Oracle Fusion AI chatbots are embedded, benefiting projects.
Erick  Karanja - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers high availability, straightforward deployment and easy to use
Tomcat could be a little bit more innovative. Tomcat could come up with a framework that's more lightweight and purely targeted at Java applications. Some other solutions are doing better right now, maybe because they have come up with MicroProfile, which I think is moving forward. It may actually beat Tomcat because of the lightweight nature of the framework, the MicroProfile. They're coming up with new solutions. So, for the future of Tomcat and to maintain the market share they might be looking for, they need to come up with initiatives to ensure that several of us have a lightweight framework to deploy applications on.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
34%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
30%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Fusion Middleware?
The most valuable features are Oracle Unified Directory and unified identity access management.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Fusion Middleware?
Oracle Fusion Middleware is generally expensive, although I'm not directly involved with the licensing aspects.
What needs improvement with Oracle Fusion Middleware?
There could be improvements in the installation and integration parts of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The guides often have errors, such as web scripting issues, and can be difficult to follow. With m...
What do you like most about Tomcat?
Tomcat's ease of use has positively impacted project timelines. Tomcat already has high availability – it doesn't go down so often and doesn't require a lot of maintenance. As long as your applicat...
What needs improvement with Tomcat?
Regarding improvements in Tomcat, I personally haven't used it very extensively, but all Apache products are very useful for our web applications. Although the web server setup is a little differen...
What is your primary use case for Tomcat?
We use Tomcat for various purposes, and our company finds it to be perfect; we are getting all the solutions out of that. There is still no chance of any migration to any other technology, but addi...
 

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