JBoss Fuse vs IBM ESB? (94/285 technotes for 2015)

Price:

• IBM products has a license cost and a support cost.
• JBoss does not have a License cost - but has a subscription cost. Red Hat JBoss Fuse subscription is over $823K less than IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service bus at list price—or just 7.3% of the IBM cost.

Interest Over Time: 
Click on the link to see how Google Trends shows the interest over the time between the two products and the latest Integration technology - Apache Camel (which is used in JBoss Fuse)

Websphere ESB vs (Jboss Fuse & Apache Camel) (live link)

Sample below - the blue line shows decrease in interest IBM WebSphere technologies



Support:

• RedHat JBoss Fuse can be used in any customer locations. 
• The same is applicable for IBM ESB (except IBM WESB - Registry Edition or Retail Edition)

Developer Tooling:

• RedHat JBoss Developer Studio is used for all Middleware development. 
• Similarly IBM Websphere Integration Developer used for all development purpose. IBM tooling is more matured - but Red Hat is catching up.

Development:

• JBoss Fuse development is extremely flexible - developers can swtich between graphical and xml views. Developers can can write a Apache Camel entirely in Java. 
• IBM does not encourage switching between gui mode and xml mode. 

Other Tools:

• With Red Hat Subscription, developers can choose to explore all the RedHat JBoss Middleware platforms like RedHat JBoss Data Grid and BRMS etc. 
• This is not possible with IBM.

Building Integration using patterns:

• RedHat JBoss uses Apache Camel -  open source, out of the box, standards based integration patterns based out of the book -  Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf.
• IBM WESB does not allow pattern based development

Server deployment footprint:

• RedHat JBoss Fuse requires 100mb free disk space and 2GB RAM. This can be even tuned and optimize. 
• IBM in geneal required 6GB RAM to run IBM WESB (including IBM Application Server).

Embedded Java Development:

• Use the Camel core component of Red Hat JBoss Fuse to embed routes in Java applications. This kind of feature is not available in IBM ESB.

Reliable Messaging:

• RedHat JBoss Fuse uses ActiveMQ - an open source software with a very small footprint. ActiveMQ. 
• It has several other benefits over IBM Websphere JMS. Please see link below for more info.

Transport Bindings

• RedHat JBoss Fuse supports all the different types of transport binding including HTTP, JMS, HTTPS, FTP. 
• On top of that Camel provides 125 connectors to varied systems.

References:

• http://red.ht/1KL3v6z -
• http://bit.ly/1KL8h49 -