Layer 7 vs. Apigee API Management
Layer 7’s technology is designed from the ground up with enterprises in mind. The Layer 7 API Management Suite is built to address each of the critical stakeholders in an API publishing initiative – from API project managers and business analysts, to IT operations, to security architects and enterprise architects focused on how best to share information.
Battle tested in the most demanding environments across the public sector, telecom, media, travel, retail, finance and payment sectors the API Management Suite aims to avoid compromise in any of the core components: the API gateway, identity solution, service manager and developer portal.
Layer 7’s API Management products differ from Apigee in terms of flexibility, security, performance and breadth. For API publishers, the same Layer 7 API platform can be used to manage partner, developer, mobile and cloud access to APIs from a single integrated console. Best of all, every Layer 7 API component is fully deployable on-premise, in the cloud or as a SaaS service – unlike Apigee, which delivers different components exclusively in specific form factors.
The best comparison is always through a real evaluation and Layer 7 encourages potential customers to take its products for a test drive, either on premise or in the cloud. For existing Apigee customers, Layer 7 also offers a replacement program aimed at providing a low-cost migration option. Contact us for details.
Key differentiators between the Layer 7 API Management Suite and the Apigee API platform include:
API Proxy/Gateway
- Performance
Layer 7 API Gateways are an order of magnitude faster - Legacy Support
Layer 7 API Gateways have broad support for SOAP, along with JMS, MQ, Tibco EMS and many other middleware and application types - SLAs
All throttling and queuing operations are cluster-wide using exact counters - Optimization
Layer 7 offers unequaled caching, compression and data conversion options for faster, lower latency delivery of content over APIs - Streaming APIs
Layer 7 API Gateways also support steaming API protocols like WebSocket and XMPP
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OAuth Toolkit/Identity Broker
- OAuth
Two- and three-legged 1.0a and 2.0 support; can act as a resource server and/or an authorization server - SAML
Full onboard SAML STS for federation and credential translation features - OpenID Connect
Ready-to-go implementation - Web SSO Integration
Out-of-the box support for CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, IBM Tivoli, Ping, RSA Access Manager, OpenSSO etc. - Cloud & Social SSO
Full external SSO and user provisioning for services like Salesforce
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API Service Manager
- API Version Management
No Apigee equivalent - Policy Lifecycle Management
No Apigee equivalent - Staging
No Apigee equivalent - RBAC-Based Administration
No Apigee equivalent - Datacenter Migration
No Apigee equivalent
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Developer Portal
- On-Premise Option
No Apigee equivalent - Privacy Controls
Full privacy controls for docs and social features - LDAP Support
Integration with enterprise LDAP for admin roles - Analytics
More analytics customizations - Sandbox
Functionality for giving publishers the ability to provide sandbox accounts - Endpoint Changes
Easy to make changes to end-points through configuration
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