WSO2 ESB: Why does it matter?

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The Enterprise Service Bus product space is very competitive today. When you pick an ESB, there are many alternatives.

Most vendors provide a common subset of features and characteristics, that are must have. For example, performance is one of them. They all got to perform, given the nature an ESB is used for EIPs.

This blog highlights some niche factors about WSO2 ESB, that will help you make an informed decision when you want to pick an ESB.

Niche

  • WSO2 ESB was built like a router from day one with a very simple flexible lightweight model

    • Many of the established vendors in the ESB space are large, cumbersome, unwieldy and overly complex, due to the fact they were evolves with many acquisitions

    • WSO2 ESB is the only ESB deployed in the *range* of scenarios from

      • Billons of transactions a day (eBay's ultrafast lightweight routing)

      • Full transactional SAP integration and HL7

    • This was WSO2’s vision for ESB originally and continues to be so

  • Evolutionary integration

    • bring forth governance with ease

      • service and API governance

    • bring forth security delegation and offloading with ease

      • identity management, entitlement, OAuth and SSO

    • Manage & Monitor

      • BAM & CEP, not everyone got

      • analyze all transactions

      • real time KPI monitoring

  • Cloud ready

    • Only ESB to have cloud native capabilities such as multi tenancy, billing, metering, auto scaling and automatic provisioning

    • deployable both on premise, in the cloud or in hybrid cloud models

  • Future proof integration design

    • It is not about just the ESB

      • the ability to evolve deployment

      • agility to develop solutions beyond just the ESB

        • composite applications development

    • connectors

      • not only the number of connectors matter

      • but also how soon you could plug in new connectors

  • Stability

    • Battle hardened with over 1000s of deployments

    • Evolved for over 7 years

  • Lean

    • In all aspects of size, approach, development, deployment, DevOps

    • Zero code services, templates and security patterns 

    • Best footprints for core services

Those Features that Every Vendor got

  • Speed

    • But we are still the leader in the performance space

  • Availability, scalability

  • Connect anything to anything

    • Protocols supported, adopters to third party systems, standards support

    • Extensible to connect to any system

  • Standard EIP support

    • Comprehensive and easy to use patterns support

    • 100% coverage of EIPs with comprehensive docs and samples

  • Manage & Monitor

    • The basic monitoring & management

  • Entry level integration

    • front end, back end SOAP/REST style integration

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