We performed a comparison between WebLogic Suite and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is a robust solution."
"Scalability on the solution is great. It's very very easy to scale."
"The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent."
"WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments."
"WebLogic Suite is scalable."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit."
"Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier."
"We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity."
"This solution is really easy for me to use."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of a ripple start function for clusters."
"The support is not good."
"I noticed a few areas for improvement in WebLogic Suite. If you use the pure play higher-availability features, then yes, it can be switched over to the other system from the high-availability point of view, but that comes with a certain price. If you prefer simpler high-availability, that requires manual intervention. I'd also recommend a tuning feature in WebLogic Suite because it's not self-tuning, and this means you need thorough expertise to do the tuning and leverage the best benefit out of it. If Oracle makes WebLogic Suite automated or self-driven, then it becomes a wonderful product, similar to what Oracle did for the Autonomous Database which is self-driven or has an autonomous operating system. If automation is added in the next release of the solution, combined with more affordable pricing, though as a technical person, I know how much goes into having automation as a feature, and it could be difficult to lower the price, but if Oracle can do it, then that would make WebLogic Suite better."
"I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"SQL queries have always been an issue with PHP, especially if you use large tables, which require caution from the side of the developer."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our WebLogic Suite vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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