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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Service Bus

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Azure Service Bus as a reliable cloud messaging as a service (MaaS) and simple hybrid integration solution.N/A

    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 says they have taken a fresh look at old-style, centralized ESB architectures, and designed their unique WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus from the ground up as the highest performance, lowest footprint, and most interoperable service oriented architecture (SOA) and integration middleware today. Additionally, the vendor says that by relying on their carbon technology the ESB is able to deliver a smooth start-to-finish project experience.N/A
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    Azure Service BusWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
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    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure Service BusWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
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    6.0
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    Availability
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    2.0
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    Performance
    -
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    6.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    7.0
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    Configurability
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Service BusWSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    If you need a cloud-based service bus or a simple to use queue/topic/routing/pub-sub service, then Azure Service Bus is a very good choice at a reasonable price and performance. Typically on-premise we'd use RabbitMQ because it "just works", but if you're building a "cloud-first" application, then this is the one to go with. It's especially easy to integrate with if you're already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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    WSO2
    WSO2 ESB is an awesome product for companies looking to venture into the world of SOA with an ESB. They have a lot of other products too that can work really well with their carbon infrastructure. The interface is simple for deploying and managing proxy services. You can also write custom modules within the ESB using Java with IDE like Eclipse
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Acting as a basic queuing service it works very well.
    • One of the best parts is that Azure Service Bus can work over HTTPS which helps in strict firewall situations. There is a performance hit if you choose to use HTTPS.
    • The routing capabilities are quite good when using topics and subscriptions. You can apply filters using a pseudo-SQL-like language though the correlation filters are quick and easy options.
    • Costs are very reasonable at low-ish volumes. If you're processing 10's of millions of messages a month... it may be a different story.
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    WSO2
    • One of the basic requirement of an ESB product is that it should be able to support transformation. WSO2 ESB provides support of XSLT, so you can transform your request to whatever format. Moreover, transformations like converting your xml payload into JSON and JSON payload to XML are out of the box available.
    • WSO2 ESB provides a scheduler feature, by which you can configure your own scheduler to call a proxy service at a particular time of day or or initiate sequence.
    • WSO2 ESB provides excellent error handling techniques, WSO2 ESB provides detailed error handling scenarios to tackle all the situations. WSO2 ESB also provides custom error handling by which you can make your own custom error message before sending it back to client.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The SqlFilter could be a little easier to use, but it's not terrible.
    • The performance while using HTTPS for the connection is a little slow compared to direct connections using AMQP ports.
    • There is a size limit to the message - unlike RMQ for instance, Azure Service Bus caps messages to 256kb on the standard tier.
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    WSO2
    • While it's easy to configure for a quick start, it is not so easy to deploy by yourself in a complex production scenario.
    • Not very stable for production usage, we encountered several trivial bugs that make us believe that this product is still not widely adopted.
    • Lack of a built in mechanism for auto-restart in case of an application server crash.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    WSO2
    Compared to competitors the overall experience has been fine
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
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    WSO2
    Lack of auto-restart built-in capabilities. In case of running out of memory there are no built-in methods to recover from a crash, just for example, Oracle WebLogic Node Manager.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    WSO2
    The product is performing well and consuming few resources
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    WSO2
    Our experience with the WSO2 support has beent satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    RabbitMQ is simple and awesome... but so is Azure Service Bus. Both accomplish the same thing but in different environments. If you're building a cloud-native application - especially one that is serverless by design - Azure Service Bus is the only real choice in Azure. It works well, it's performance, and it's reasonably priced in the Standard tier. From our testing, RMQ is more performant, but it's hard to compare service-based implementations vs RMQ installed on VMs.
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    WSO2
    It's the only one truly open source and free.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    WSO2
    Adding a server node is really straightforward, there are just few point in the configuration files.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Compared to open-source free software like RMQ, Azure Service Bus does have some costs to it. But the cost is reasonable.
    • Also unlike RMQ, Azure Service Bus doesn't require you to stand up any hardware - so it's very easy to use and saves time/money from that perspective.
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    WSO2
    • Very well documented tutorials and case studies makes it easy to learn.
    • It has a really supportive community
    • It is fast and it can easily handle 300 tps of average use on a VM with 4Gig RAM
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