We performed a comparison between Oracle GoldenGate and Quest SharePlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It scales well. You can either have it working in with the databases, or you can move it outside. It's got the ability to parallelize up, so you can certainly extract and replay the data from your databases in parallel. So it does have horizontal scalability. That is probably one of its stronger features, the ability just to automatically parallelize the replay and playing of data to allow to scale to large volumes."
"The replication of the data table is one of the best features."
"This solution provides us with real-time replication and it does not affect the performance of other operations, which is very important to us."
"It works best with Oracle."
"I like that the product transforms data and provides real-time applications."
"This is a powerful solution provided by one of the most respected companies in the computer industry."
"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."
"Data migration is the most valuable feature of Oracle GoldenGate."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."
"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."
"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."
"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."
"We struggle with memory. It's limited. However, it may be because of our unique business case and how we use it that it's limiting for us."
"GoldenGate is expensive. It's costly because this solution is unique in our market. The GoldenGate Cloud Service is cheaper than the on-premise solution."
"The GoldenGate license is very costly."
"Technical support for Oracle products needs to be more efficient (at least locally in Egypt)."
"What needs improvement in Oracle GoldenGate is the support. Another feature that needs to be improved in the solution is its GUI. It would be useful for programmers or users to be able to work from the GUI, not just from the command line. Simplifying how Oracle GoldenGate is used would also make the solution better."
"It's stable but you have to know how to maintain it. That's why it's not 10 out of 10 for me. There are some bugs, there are some issues here and there. All of a sudden your process is not working and you have to figure out why, and sometimes it's not so clear."
"I would like to see the interface more graphical and easier to use."
"Additional performance metrics should be added and visible in a dashboard, displayed in a detailed manner."
"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."
"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."
"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."
"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."
"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."
Oracle GoldenGate is ranked 6th in Data Integration with 48 reviews while Quest SharePlex is ranked 25th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. Oracle GoldenGate is rated 8.2, while Quest SharePlex is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Oracle GoldenGate writes "Performs real-time replication without data loss, but we cannot do much automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest SharePlex writes "It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially". Oracle GoldenGate is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Fivetran, whereas Quest SharePlex is most compared with Qlik Replicate, AWS Database Migration Service, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Fivetran. See our Oracle GoldenGate vs. Quest SharePlex report.
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