We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"Its initial setup was straightforward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"What I like most is the stability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"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."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The center management system could be improved."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Alteon. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. NGINX Plus report.
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