API Umbrella vs Apigility vs Kong

Overview

Apigility

Stacks38

Followers105

Votes2

GitHub Stars442

Forks118

Kong

Stacks650

Followers1.5K

Votes139

GitHub Stars42.1K

Forks5.0K

API Umbrella

Stacks27

Followers126

Votes0

GitHub Stars2.1K

Forks352

Advice on Apigility, Kong, API Umbrella

Prateek

Mar 14, 2020

Decided

Istio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn-keyIstio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn key solution with Rancher whereas Kong completely lacks here. Traffic distribution in Istio can be done via canary, a/b, shadowing, HTTP headers, ACL, whitelist whereas in Kong it's limited to canary, ACL, blue-green, proxy caching. Istio has amazing community support which is visible via Github stars or releases when comparing both.

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Detailed Comparison

Apigility	Kong	API Umbrella
An API-based architecture is essential to agile delivery of mobile applications. Apigility provides JSON representations that can be parsed and used in any mobile framework; write for the web or native applications simultaneously!	Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.	API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs. It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.
RESTful or RPC services; JSON (specifically, HAL); Problem Details for HTTP APIs; Versioning; Normalisation and Validation; Authentication (HTTP Basic/Digest, OAuth2); Documentation (HTML, Swagger).	Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk; OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs; Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics; IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests; Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens; Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication; Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly; CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked; Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins;	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 442	GitHub Stars 42.1K	GitHub Stars 2.1K
GitHub Forks 118	GitHub Forks 5.0K	GitHub Forks 352
Stacks 38	Stacks 650	Stacks 27
Followers 105	Followers 1.5K	Followers 126
Votes 2	Votes 139	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Active dev community, full-featured, REST + RPC 1 Follows Standards, Easy to Use, Design Patterns Used	Pros 37 Easy to maintain 32 Easy to install 26 Flexible 21 Great performance 7 Api blueprint	No community feedback yet
Integrations
PHP	Cassandra Docker Prometheus Kubernetes PostgreSQL NGINX Vagrant	No integrations available

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