We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable solution."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is robust."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The solution provides good performance."
"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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