Mule ESB: Small Footprint
The Leanest, Meanest ESB
Mule ESB is the world's most efficient Enterprise Service Bus. It is designed to work efficiently on commodity hardware, virtual machines and even developers' laptops. Compared to other ESBs it requires a fraction of the resources in order to run effectively.
| Mule | IBM Websphere | Oracle Service Bus |
| Size (measured by download size) | 76MB | 550-600MB, depending on platform | 1.1GB |
| Required app server | Optional, None required | IBM Websphere Application Server: 826MB-838MB | Oracle Weblogic: 1.03GB |
| Planning and deployment | Quick implementation and deployment | Extensive architecture, planning and stack deployment effort | Extensive architecture, planning and stack deployment effort |
| Minimum CPU (x86 Linux) | Single-core 1.6 GHz | Single-core 3GHz or Dual Core 2.4GHz | Dual core 1.5GHz |
| Minimum RAM (x86 Linux) | 768MB | 1GB, 2GB recommended | 4GB |
| Minimum disk (x86 Linux) | 260MB | 1.9GB | 15GB |
| Required Products | Mule ESB | IBM Websphere ESB IBM Websphere MQ IBM Websphere Application Server IBM Rational Application Developer | Oracle Service Bus Oracle Weblogic Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle JDeveloper |
| Deployment Model | Standalone or Any Application Server | Must be deployed on Websphere Application Server | Must be deployed on Oracle Weblogic |
