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What is different in WSO2 ESB compare to other integrations solutions

In my previous post , I have discussed about the facts you need to consider when selecting an integration solution for your enterprise IT infrastructure. I didn't provide any clue on what is the best vendor you can select since that depends on your requirements and budget and many other reasons. In this post, I will do a comparison between several open source and proprietary solutions and differentiate WSO2 ESB (my employer) features with them.

Proprietary ESB 


Pros 
  • Suite of solutions included and work smoothly with each other (eg: CEP, BPEL, MB, Registry)
  • Powerful and stable tooling and monitoring capabilities
  • Excellent support for price
Cons
  • High price, High complexity
  • Licensing and non-transparent pricing model
  • Different components may come from different code bases acquired through different companies
  • Heavy products
  • Installation may need consultants and take more time

Open source ESB


Pros
  • Simple installation and intuitive tooling
  • Some vendors offer free version and commercial version for price with more features
  • Customer friendly licensing and pricing
  • Connectors available for B2B integrations 
  • Great community support due to well known open source projects (eg: Camel, CXF, Synapse)
  • Common code base for all the components (Talend, WSO2)
  • Zero coding + custom java code and scripting support
Cons
  • Some vendors are not fully open source. Commercial version source code is proprietary.
  • Tooling support may not up to the same level as proprietary
  • Product documentation is not comprehensive as the proprietary products
Most of the advantages possessed by open source ESBs are present in WSO2 ESB. Here is a complete set of advantages you will get with WSO2 ESB.

WSO2 ESB


Pros

  • Easy to use, lightweight, lean product which requires minimal resources and easy installation
  • Open source and free. There are no separate commercial version with closed source. All the features are available in free version
  • Provides entire range of products to cover enterprise needs like ESB, Business Process Server, Analytics platform, Message Broker, Governance solution, Mobile and Security solutions which interacts smoothly
  • All the products are based on single code base built on top of a componentized architecture with common kernel (Carbon)
  • Easy to extend with custom extension points which provides the first class member privileges to custom code as internal code
  • 150+ connectors to connect with B2B applications and third party cloud APIs which are free and open source
  • Customer friendly, transparent pricing model and different levels of customer support
  • Zero coding and fully configuration based with ever increasing visual tooling based on eclipse platform. No programming skills required.
  • Cloud native implementations make it easy to move your enterprise solutions to cloud without any hazzle
  • Lot of community support from apache projects and WSO2 own community through blog posts/articles
  • Support is provided by the same engineers who develop the code and hence better response times
Cons

  • Visual tooling is not up to the proprietary solution level
  • Product documentation is not comprehensive as proprietary solutions

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  1. UnknownMarch 4, 2016 at 9:32 AM

    Hi there,

    Thank you for this information. Would you happen to know any exact dollar figures regarding WSO2 support ? I am aware that its proportional to the number of JVMs. I am having a hard time figuring out the actual amounts.

    Thanks in advance.

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  2. chanakaudayaMarch 4, 2016 at 6:21 PM

    Hi Aizaz,
    You can contact WSO2 sales team for the exact pricing. You can fill the below form with your request and they will respond you.
    http://wso2.com/contact/

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  3. UnknownAugust 22, 2018 at 8:47 AM

    I am not seeing any comparisons here , explaining only about wso2 not about mule esb . If you know please compare with diffrent esb's and publish

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