NGINX Plus vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Plus
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.
$849
per month billed annually
Oracle WebLogic Server
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.N/A
Pricing
NGINX PlusOracle WebLogic Server
Editions & Modules
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX PlusOracle WebLogic Server
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
NGINX PlusOracle WebLogic Server
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Plus
7.1
Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle WebLogic Server
8.1
Ratings
2% above category average
IDE support7.10 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Security management7.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Administration and management6.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Application server performance7.40 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Installation6.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance7.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
NGINX PlusOracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINX PlusOracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend
I think that NGINX Plus could be used in place of a hardware load balancer and it would be light weight and easier to configure than a hardware based load balancer but in terms of usability a GUI for said load balancer would definitely help in setting up
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I see Oracle WebLogic Application Server being appropriate when an application needs several different data sources and messaging providers configured and accessible, with a configured level of control of resources (connection pools) and timeouts. It is also advisable to create distributed resources that you can configure as always active to provide more processing power, or as failover for situations of availability in case of disaster recovery, for example. An application where the number of required resources configured is very small and almost non-changeable, and no scalability is required, some other options exist in the market with less cost.
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Pros
  • Load balancing
  • Caching
  • App security
  • Boost App performance
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  • I love that the weblogic dashboard allows you to manage applications and see the status of each application.
  • Oracle WebLogic Application Server simplifies usage periods in the development and production of business applications.
  • Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define various aspects of data source entry, including creating a specific multiple connection to facilitate data entry.
  • Performance and administration are highlighted in weblogic.
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Cons
  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available
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  • The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
  • The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
  • Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
  • Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
  • Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
  • License cost is too high, for small businesses.
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Likelihood to Renew
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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Usability
The UI is not there.
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Oracle WebLogic Server has so many features that sometimes it's hard to find the right place to setup things, I think the dated user interface does not help with that either. This has a direct impact when deciding to use it as your application server, you'd need to have the right people and invest the time needed to master it. If you're application justifies it then it will definitely be a great choice in the long run.
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Performance
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Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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Support Rating
We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.
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Alternatives Considered
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I wasn't involved in selecting the server we were using but in our team we've made some efforts to improve the local deployment process by trying some other Applicational servers too. Apache Tomcat was a more lightweight solution for sure, and it coped well with our applications needs, configuration and performance wise. Despite that, since we didn't got clearance to change that into our local servers, we kept using Weblogic to guarantee compliance between the testing environments and production.
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Return on Investment
  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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  • It made it easy to handle over a 100 of deployments across multiple nodes every quarter.
  • It was easy to scale up our application to 36 nodes as the volume of transactions increased over the years.
  • Helped us achieve 99.999 availability for our users.
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