Apache Camel vs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Apache Camel

Apache Camel

34 Reviews and Ratings

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

115 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache Camel	Score 6.3 out of 10	N/A	Apache Camel is an open source integration platform.	N/A
Anypoint Platform	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.	N/A

Pricing

Apache Camel

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Apache Camel	Anypoint Platform
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Apache Camel	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Considered Both Products	Apache Camel Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel Easier to use, better routing system, but perhaps too basic dependant on business needs? Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel If you are looking for a Java-based open source low cost equivalent to webMethods or Azure Logic Apps, Apache Camel is an excellent choice as it is mature and widely deployed, and included in many vendored Java application servers too such as Redhat JBoss EAP. Apache Camel is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel working with Apache's TomCat server, our developer found it most easy given the UI of Camel to perform integration and data processing tasks. when compared to the other two softwares they felt the need to learn new tools outside of Apache family can be avoided and with kafka, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel WebSphere Message Broker - Expensive, old, hard to use, bad connectors Mulesoft - Very similar to Camel, but expensive and buggy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel We did a comparison of the two products with an example application that tested about 10 distinct EIP pattern. We wrote Camel in XML and Java DSL and SI in XML. This was about 3 years ago. At the time, I found the threading model in SI to be more intuitive and Camel's seda. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel Akka or Spring Integration/ XD are alternatives to Apache Camel and very good frameworks on their own (especially Akka which provides a single threaded illusion). Incentivized Helpful? Akmal Muqeeth Lead Software Engineer Chose Apache Camel We chose Apache Camel because it was lightweight, easy to get started with and because it had a groovy DSL since we were a grails shop when we started using it. Incentivized Helpful? SS Surjit Sen Senior Software Consultant at Randstad Chose Apache Camel Apache Camel has been the integration framework of choice, but I was not the person to make the decision to use it. Compared to other competing products like Tibco Business Works, etc., it is free and open source and its licensing policy is acceptable to the management of Cox. Incentivized Helpful? David McCann Senior Software Engineer Chose Apache Camel Esper is only similar in that they both are involved in complex even processing, however Esper's aim is a little more complex and specialized. In general however I found Apache Camel to be much easier to understand, implement and debug, whereas Esper's DSL can get very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache Camel Jax-rs Incentivized Helpful?	Anypoint Platform Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform AWS is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. The main reason why we chose MuleSoft Anypoint Platform API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Ahn Director Chose Anypoint Platform Mulesoft is a more modern, flexible, and faster-performing integration suite than traditional providers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our … Incentivized Helpful? Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM SAP Technical Manager Chose Anypoint Platform Overall a better experience in pricing negotiation with the Sales team. The breadth of services offered by Mulesoft was really important and the expertise offered by our consulting partner influenced the decision. The overall deployment was completed well within the timelines. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Once we use [MuleSoft] Anypoint Platform to host all our system integration APIS, we need to exchange data with a lot of different resources. Those listed systems are our main systems that hold all business and logic behind our service. The integration from Anypoint Platform … Incentivized Helpful? AS Alex Scutea Cloud Solutions Administrator Chose Anypoint Platform We selected Mulesoft for speed of implementation. We did not have the luxury of time and needed a solution that can be learned and implemented within weeks so we can take advantage of newly formed partnerships. The training that was provided to use during our pre-sales and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform We believe Anypoint Platform is best in breed and has features that match nearly any other iPaaS offering. It also allows for accomplishing much more challenging and complex integrations due to the ability to connect to nearly any system, use custom connectors, and embed … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Chose Anypoint Platform The main problem with this software is the different connector type that is used for different protocols except for a different SAP connector. There is only one connector called SAP. It will be great if there will have a different connectors like idoc, RFC, proxy, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint has tons of capabilities baked in one platform, and other competitors like Built.io or Workato may not have all those like Anypoint Exchange. However where these products shine are in usability, as it's ridiculously easy to build integrations using Built.io. I was … Incentivized Helpful? Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Chose Anypoint Platform Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. We have selected Anypoint platform because it is … Incentivized Helpful? Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡ Salesforce Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi is kind of similar in drag and drop implementation. However, it doesn't have as many connectors (shapes in Dell Boomi). Moreover, it also doesn't have deployment stuff on its own. Informatica is way behind Dell Boomi and Anypoint Platform, but users are still using it … Incentivized Helpful? Rajarshee Mukhopadhyay Associate Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Compared to Dell Boomi the API management suite of Mulesoft is much mature, however if its only about the integration , then i would always go for Dell Boomi, as there is no infrastructure setup that needs to be done from the developer's end. APIGEE api management is as good as … Incentivized Helpful? Deepak Kushwaha Tech Arch Sr. Analyst Chose Anypoint Platform The main reason why we chose Anypoint API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. AWS, on the other hand, is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform API led architecture focus with a decent API ecosystem for developer collaboration, policy management and declarative implementation. Batch processing, visualization, Anypoint MQ and ObjectStore leave a lot to be explored. Multiple deployment models make it worth considering. Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Goyal Technical Consultant Chose Anypoint Platform Dell Boomi and Talend Data Integration Incentivized Helpful? Federica Bianco Integration architect Chose Anypoint Platform It enables customers to expose their APIs in a very simple and fast way. It can be used by non-expert developers. It is compliant with all major connection and data representation world standard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus Incentivized Helpful? VR Vijaya Reddy Founder Chose Anypoint Platform We provide options to customers to choose from the best tools. Customers are the decision makers. Personally, because of open-source and large community base, MuleSoft is the repo in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Anypoint Platform It is a powerful tool with smart intelligence. The drag and drop feature makes my work easy. The tool has great connecting support which is the best reason to use the tool on a daily basis. Powerful functionality with designing and implementing APIs. Hosted on public IP. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Apache Camel

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Cloud Data Integration

Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
	Apache Camel - Ratings	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 6.8 Ratings 16% below category average
Pre-built connectors	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Connector modification	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Data quality services	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Data security features	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Monitoring console	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings

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	Apache Camel	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
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Enterprises	TIBCO B2B Integration Solution Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM App Connect Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Apache Camel	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apache Camel	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Message brokering across different systems, with transactionality and the ability to have fine tuned control over what happens using Java (or other languages), instead of a heavy, proprietary languages. One situation that it doesn't fit very well (as far as I have experienced) is when your workflow requires significant data mapping. While possible when using Java tooling, some other visual data mapping tools in other integration frameworks are easier to work with. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best tool in the market for developing APIs with complex structures communicating with various different types of applications including web applications as well as legacy applications. Also applications including database connectivity for fetching and updating data in the DB tables. I cant think of any scenario which MuleSoft Anypoint Platform could not be used for developing the integrations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	open source and a great set of component feature set - always latest features available for integration works well with spring boot great community and support for any kind of workflow based on enterprise integration patterns which helps our developers achieve integration tasks with all kinds of API services Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Provides wide range of popular connectors like salesforce, netsuite, sftp and many more. A user can easily integrate with those services using specific connector. Support API development using RAML and desing tool. The platform is very good in data type classification. Cloud deployment and post deployment monitoring is easy. A user can configure application worker as per need. Alert and notifications are real time. Incentivized Kamta Prasad Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Some of the documentation is a little sparse. In particular, its TCP-based routes use an underlying Netty server, and the interactions between Netty's decoder capabilities and Apache Camel's routing/handler capabilities can be a little muddy at times. In general it is clear which routes and endpoints are the more frequently used and which haven't been given as much attention. Incentivized David McCann Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Has more features than what we really need so we're paying for more than we use. Sort of like paying for an Abrams tank when all we really need is a Toyota Corolla. Not a value product, tends to be expensive. Takes a while for developers to learn to use Mulesoft Anypoint. Incentivized A Verified User Cloud Solutions Administrator Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apache Camel has been the integration framework of choice, but I was not the person to make the decision to use it. Compared to other competing products like Tibco Business Works, etc., it is free and open source and its licensing policy is acceptable to the management of Cox. Incentivized SS Surjit Sen Senior Software Consultant at Randstad Read full review	Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our APIs) makes it easy to connect to various other platforms. In order to link to these many other systems, connectors and/or components are utilized, and they are simple to configure and integrate. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Very fast time to market in that so many components are available to use immediately. Error handling mechanisms and patterns of practice are robust and easy to use which in turn has made our application more robust from the start, so fewer bugs. However, testing and debugging routes is more challenging than working is standard Java so that takes more time (less time than writing the components from scratch). Most people don't know Camel coming in and many junior developers find it overwhelming and are not enthusiastic to learn it. So finding people that want to develop/maintain it is a challenge. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc. An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations. Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect. Incentivized Nikhil Kohli Service Delivery Lead Read full review
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