--- title: Apache Axiom Reviews meta_title: 'Apache Axiom Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Axiom works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 22 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Apache Axiom Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [XML Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/xml-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Apache Axiom The Apache Axiom library provides an XML Infoset compliant object model implementation which supports on-demand building of the object tree. It supports a novel "pull-through" model which allows one to turn off the tree building and directly access the underlying pull event stream using the StAX API. ## Apache Axiom Reviews ### 1. Relatively user friendly and easier to implement tasks using this. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh R. | SDE-2(Data), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** The fact that it supports deferred parsing and on demand object tree creation. Building API becomes relatively efficient after using this. Inbuilt functionalities ensure that we don't have to search around for standalone tasks. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** The interface should be more precise and the functionalities can be better explain on the interface itself to allow easy understanding for beginners. Just hovering the cursor over the icons should allow access to more information. It would save the KT time. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** Definitely can be tried and self evaluated against other products available based on business requirements. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it while creating an API for a freelance healthcare project. It resulted in a considerable saving of time and the inbuilt functionalities allowed focused approach. ### 2. Smooth and productive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** The best feature which I like is it provides XML Infoset compliant object model implementation and it supports the on-demand building of the object tree. Its smooth operation and quality makes us more productive. Thank you. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Everything looks fine as of now, Our team did not face any issue so far. Loved the smooth experience. Thank you so much. I cam say the documentation should be improved little bit. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fast processing of of XML, StAX-based builders with on-demand building and pull-through and support XML optimized packaging (XOP) and MTOM which helped us a lot in our project. Its absolutely productive and helpful and we can use more of it and can recommend people as well. ### 3. Why to use Apache Axiom **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Munish C. | Lead Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Apache axiom is Highly performant with Full XML Infoset compliant XML object model and provides Convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of Axiom **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Apache Axiom does not support any other data format like json **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very helpful, when there is a need of generating XML objects with high performance ### 4. Apache Axiom User Feedback **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ratiranjan N. | Sr Data Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Apache Axiom is mostly famous for the bu **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Its mostly famous for building the on demand object tree model & it has a lot of features that makes the building an API in an efficient way, it's quite fast working with XML objects, it's user friendly system makes tit more smooth to learn and adapt with cloud technology as well. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** The User Guide can be explained with much easier way, that will help the people range from beginners to senior level with an efficient manner. UI should be more flexible to handle lagre size of XML files, precisely,the UI can be more improvised ### 5. User friendly and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satyajit K. | DevOps Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Its a perfect platform to build a better XML object model. The main advantage of Apache Axiom is that its memory efficient and fast in processing XML with highest flexibility. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Its rare but yes sometimes we get slowness in loading, but its fine and can be fixed in the next release I hope. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a full XML infoset compliant XML object model. Its fast processing helped me to build a perfect XML object tree as per my project requirement. Best part is that it also has built in support for XML optimized packaging and MTOM as well. Thanks a lot. ### 6. Apache Axiom in a Nutshell **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajinkya G. | Azure Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** One thing I liked about Axiom is its ability to integrate XML to any object model. It has a very user-friendly framework that can gel along well with multi-cloud environments. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** One change I would like to happen is making the documentation more user friendly for beginners with multiple use cases **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our client is a fintech leader dealing with XML data, so we had pitched in an axiom for one of the data use cases. For a huge chunk of files Axiom's template load and saving performance is better than the earlier third-party tools ### 7. Apache Axiom - Simplifying our workday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** The first thing i would like to appreciate is the direct binary support by Apache Axiom and secondly the convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of Axiom. Also the dynamic infrastructure framework offering on-demand code execution **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Need to focus on the turn around execution time for loading, if it can match or be lesser than the sonic XML server. Adding to the context had some kind of glitches in XOP/MTOM handling and unit test failure **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** Would advise everyone to use it and gain insights about Axiom **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best advantage is less memory-intensive programming. Along with it helps in the on-demand building and maintenance of the object tree. Can be a good option for cloud environment projects ### 8. Senior IT Manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** It uses XML which is the most easiest form of data representation which can be easily integrated with any other tools / applications. The API is easy to use and is flexible to be consumed or fed into other systems. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** The current support for Andriod / Telephony is less. Also in terms of Cloud Operating model, integration with Docker will help to take full advantage of Cloud deployment. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** Try this out to understand the performance improvements! **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** It supports on-demand build of the object tree (Deferred Building) using XML. Its very fast and highly performant compared to others leading to significant improvement in Business performance. ### 9. Best for budget management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaishali A. | Operations executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Setting up user security is a simple one-time task that's also simple to maintain as workers move departments, leave the company, and so on. Role-based security settings are what I would propose. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** It is not much user friendly. The axiom needs to be clearly told exactly what you need from them, so you need a strong project manager to take the lead in working with axiom. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** Axiom provides additional customization and template options. There aren't many statements that say "The product can't do that". **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** Even for huge plan files, Axiom's template load and saving performance was significantly better than a previous EPM we employed. Users in their business can change their work to create other reports without needing Axiom's assistance. ### 10. Apache Axiom features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad K. | Blockchain Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** it support binary.It is better result in SOAP integration up of Axiom.it also support linkedlist based implementation and also support W3C DOM implementation too. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** it has complex understanding.it must required a specific person for understanding the whole features.sometime its performance down for heavy weight projects too. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** Make it user friendly **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** In usecase of XML carrying data usecases. ### 11. Cost effective xml infoset model **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shobhit S. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Its ability to integrate xml to any object model very Easy to use framework **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Its UI framework lags during heavy xml model processing **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it in poc of object data modelling where we got cost effective result due to apache axiom its good alternative to EPM ### 12. Kiran review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran I. | B, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Easy to use api for performing the operations **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Less clarity in documentation about the options and operations available **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** I cannot disclose the details of the usecase but it has significantly reduced amount of hours required and improved team deliverables ### 13. Apache Axiom Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sathya N. | Engineer 1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** I liked the way the application can be hosted **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** The Ui seems to be very complex and seems to be non user friendly **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** My main benefits was to host apps with less cost ### 14. Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umesh Kumar R. | Senior Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** It's capability to dynamically build xml object model **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** We can comment when used practically in projects. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** It can be of great use in case xml model being used **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** In case of xml carrying data use cases. ### 15. Best model for supporting deferred parsing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Apache Axiom model is memory efficient and fast in processing XML. It providesIt different object model implementation. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Apache Axiom is not much user friendly and it requires an experienced person to take lead with Axiom. I hope can be fixed in upcoming releases. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Apache Axiom in POC of data modeling as it is cost and performance efficient and used incase of XML data parsing. ### 16. Pretty good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nabila S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Ease of use is what I like most about apache axiom **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** I would appreciate if documentation for apache axiom is a little more beginner friendly **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently learning it ### 17. Feature **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** I would recommend it because it works with multi-cloud environments **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** A bit complicated to use. It should be user friendly so even a person with less introduction of this software can use it. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** Axiom's template load and saving performance were significantly better than the previous one. Users in their business can change their work to create other reports without needing Axiom's assistance. ### 18. Review for Apache axiom **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praneeth Sai J. | Associate Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** The best thing I would like in Axiom is a dynamic infrastructure Framework to efficiently work with multi-Cloud environments. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** I would say using relocation is the only thing which has serious disadvantage. **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that we are solving using axiom are Full XML infoset compliant object model building, Linked list based implementation, W3C DOM supporting implementation. ### 19. Apache Axiom **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mandeep s. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** On demand code execution and we can integrate with other applications also like crowdsec **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Takes too much time to load. And we have good alternative present like sonic XML server **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** on-demand building and maintenance of the object tree. ### 20. Easy to use Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Apache axioms is very easy to use framework. Its interface is very userfriendly to use and understand. **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** Sometime its lagging, take time to refresh pages **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** If you looking an easy to use framework for cloud project then its a very good framework **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very good for building cloud environment projects ### 21. Pure XML Infoset Model **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** Its Transparency to carry the xml binary data and its building capacity of on demanding object model **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** some kind of glitches in XOP/MTOM handling,unit test failure, sometimes build error while creating jar **Recommendations to others considering Apache Axiom:** must recommend **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its dynamic nature to effectively and efficiently work with multi cloud environment. ### 22. Helpful in direct binary support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carly P. | Financial Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Apache Axiom?** The ease of the application and how helpful it is **What do you dislike about Apache Axiom?** How long it takes to load when you open up the application **What problems is Apache Axiom solving and how is that benefiting you?** People that are unfamiliar with IT can actually build queries and code ## Apache Axiom Discussions - [What is Apache Axiom used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-axiom-used-for) - [View Apache Axiom pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-axiom/reviews?open_modal_url=%2Fde%2Fproducts%2Fapache-axiom%2Fwishlists%3Fhost_path%3D%252Fproducts%252Fapache-axiom%252Freviews%26source%3Dpdp_avatar§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-25+21%3A07%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2bc9e142-efdc-42e5-a039-919969a08162&secure%5Btoken%5D=407ceb1bf40a2ecea698f72fa44a782270aa47a2a4601de2e1b05b92bfbc2cae&format=llm_user) ## Apache Axiom Features **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Apache Axiom Alternatives - [IBM Db2](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (598 reviews) - [Progress MarkLogic](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-marklogic/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (65 reviews) - [InterSystems IRIS](https://www.g2.com/products/intersystems-iris/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (59 reviews)