Category: cloud

The nature of the ESB is distributed; ESB is more scalable than the hub-and-spoke architecture. With ESB the ability to deploy separate integration services, scaling up and scaling out becomes easier. An ESB is based on open standards. EAI/hub-and-spoke solutions are generally based on proprietary standards.

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can have either a traditional hub-and-spoke architecture or a distributed, peer-to-peer architecture. Hub-and-Spoke systems are easy to administer but difficult to scale, since as processes are added the hub becomes a communication bottleneck. Most ESB’s are based on a peer-to-peer architecture allow hardware resources scattered across the network to be…