Oracle SOA Suite vs. Talend ESB

In comparison to Open source products like Apache Camel and Mule ESB, Oracle ESB is more robust and offers better enterprise capabilities. However, the licensing costs are fairly prohibitive and are preventing widespread product adoption. At our university, we had already purchased the Oracle Campus Solutions ERP suite and hence had little problems integrating their OSB as well.

Incentivized

Recommended for:

1. Multiple systems to interface for a task in the company (example: to sell an item your POS must communicate with the inventory software, then to accounting, then to service, etc).
2. When a task must bring information from several external services.
3. When you have to deal with multiple APIs.

Not recommended for:

1. Data transformation (although Talend has a software for that that works with Talend ESB)

Incentivized

• It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or Web services through different protocols.
• It helps in building reusable, well-defined services.

Incentivized

• Up to 900 connectors included in the license with no extra cost
• Graphical UI to develop the Web Services
• You can begin with the community version to evaluate or start implementing a very uncomplicated ESB
• The Talend ESB Admin Control is very powerful with dashboards and reports to keep your IF working smoothly

Incentivized

• Service implementation is not agile like microservices.
• The architecture is so complex and could result in higher latency with so many layers to traverse.
• Deployment of multiple web services in one session

Incentivized

• You have to log in to each module separately
• 900 connectors is a lot, but if you have a custom app to interface, you have to develop your connector

Incentivized

We have had not many issues with Oracle Service Bus and it's very stable for our requirements. It's highly available and helps us implement Tier1 applications on it.

Incentivized

It's an excellent enterprise service bus and has very stable features. We have been using it since 2008. We did hit into some issues. But, recreating the service helped fix many issues. Also, deployment to various environments was easy. Also, the plugin on Eclipse helps to build proxy and business services quick and easy.

Incentivized

We had some issues with MQ connectivity through OSB and our experience was poor with the support team. They do respond. But, it felt like we are ignored and we had bad support. We had to escalate and things used to get dragged for weeks before we get more quality questions on how to pursue investigation.

Incentivized

Mule ESB is an open source tool and would definitely cost less, however is not as sophisticated a product for the business functionality we need at US Cellular.. I have reviewed IBM WebSphere Message Broker, is very cumbersome and not very user friendly. Despite some of the license cost concerns, Oracle Service Bus stands out as an ideal Enterprise Service Bus solution at US Cellular

Incentivized

• First, it is a lot of cheaper than the closest competitor.
• Second, Talend ESB is in the same league as other stronger brands.
• Third, the functions and modules are a 360 solution to implement an ESB.

Talend has a different approach to license since it is based on programmers and run times, not to users of cores.

Incentivized

• We were able to increase efficiency in our lead generation process.
• Improved data driven decisions.
• Reduction in processing time by aligning resources on time.

Incentivized

• Considerably cheaper than oracle service bus
• As I said before, you can run a POC using the community version of Talend Studio.
• Built from Open Source/ well-proven technologies, and a big community to support those technologies.

Incentivized