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Oracle SOA Suite vs WSO2 Carbon [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SOA Suite
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (8th), SOA Governance (1st)
WSO2 Carbon [EOL]
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Debjit Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user420135 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Architect & Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It allows you to deal with any mediation situation based on messages using concepts like proxy services and APIs.
The Data Services Server is a beautiful product which allows you to "expose" your data as REST and/or SOAP services secured or not using any of the databases you might to keep your business data. Using with the Identity server it gives you the possibility to manage all the identity subjects in your Organization, it connects out of the box to any corporate user store you have through LDAP or JDBC, it allows you to manage different mechanisms to implement authentication / authorization using Web SSO, SAML2, OAUTH2, federated authentication, among others. Also, it allows you to control all this through its administrative interface which could be exposed out of the box as SOAP services and also you can use it to implement role based access controls using XACML policies and business claims.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have figured out that SOA Suite 12c currently offers the richest functionalities and is the best integrated product."
"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."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively."
"In the company I work, we specialize in integration solutions, and with this, we are able to perform quick deliveries and clients are happy that their time to market is reduced."
"The product is very good considering tracing, ease of use and troubleshooting."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"The SOA Suite is a very reliable solution."
"It is a very good ESB if your team has JEE knowledge."
"The Enterprise Service Bus is really fast and flexible, it allows you to deal with any mediation situation based on messages using concepts like proxy services, APIs, and it has lots of connectors that facilitates its interaction with other products."
 

Cons

"An area with some room for improvement is the development tool used (JDeveloper) with regard to stability."
"While the product is technically good, my biggest complaint is that there's a lack of the ability to find good support in the IT community for it."
"Customers experience issues standing up environments. Unless an experienced administrator is involved, having an environment that is clustered and load balanced requires quite a bit of time."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"If the disk space expansion can be made more flexible, not requiring a database restart, it would be a major benefit."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"Nevertheless, the stability when used with JDeveloper needs improvement."
"In a general sense, the documentation of these products should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."
"The product is moderately priced."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
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Midsize Enterprise
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Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise41
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SOA Suite?
The setup cost of Oracle SOA Suite is relatively high since various components, including database licenses, WebLogic licenses, VM costs, and SOA licenses based on enterprise and Oracle negotiation...
What needs improvement with Oracle SOA Suite?
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 aris...
What is your primary use case for Oracle SOA Suite?
I can describe several use cases for Oracle SOA Suite; it is fundamentally a middleware product. In software architecture, we refer to it as middleware. Middleware is an application that lies betwe...
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Carbon
 

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