We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle GoldenGate 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."Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"The product's microservice architecture is scalable."
"You can put data together from a few databases into one database or the other way, from one database into several. It transforms data in real-time."
"I am impressed with the tool's possibility of integrating different systems in a unified place."
"We use the tool to pull on-prem data."
"This is a powerful solution provided by one of the most respected companies in the computer industry."
"With Oracle GoldenGate, you can easily sync the tables and put them into the ODS database."
"It works best with Oracle."
"They've recently improved the ease of implementation."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"The solution needs to improve its latency, monitoring and support."
"IBM CDC has one central control while Oracle GoldenGate has two controls. In IBM CDC we can do all things in frontend. The solution needs to incorporate a feature where we can connect it to a standby database."
"In the future, I would appreciate a more user-friendly monitoring interface for easier management and troubleshooting."
"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."
"Troubleshooting issues is not always the easiest. It should be easier to troubleshoot. Their support can also be improved. They don't read your problem statement and waste a lot of time. GoldenGate for big data is actually a separate license. It is sort of a separate product, but it might fall underneath your GoldenGate category. If we're talking about big data, its interaction with big data sources is poorly documented."
"Oracle GoldenGate can enhance its functionality by enabling the merging of multiple migrations into one."
"The process of transforming the data between two different databases is inefficient and needs to be improved."
"Regarding improvements, the focus should be on addressing data quality issues and minimizing delays, particularly in Oracle databases. The technical support should be improved as well. Additionally, in terms of features, it would be great if the solution could support APIs. The support is not friendly. They don’t respond on time."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Oracle GoldenGate is ranked 6th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle GoldenGate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle GoldenGate writes "Performs real-time replication without data loss, but we cannot do much automation". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Tableau, whereas Oracle GoldenGate is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Quest SharePlex, Azure Data Factory and JumpMind SymmetricDS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Oracle GoldenGate report.
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