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We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Informatica PowerExchange vs. Oracle GoldenGate Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"It is a scalable and versatile solution.""The scalability is excellent.""The product’s flexibility is valuable.""The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far.""Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking.""The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine.""Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation.""This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."

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"The live application feature is most valuable. The solution is stable. I rate it a seven out of ten.""It is a scalable solution.""Oracle GoldenGate features work fine, which is what I like about it. I also like that it's scalable, easy to set up, and has good technical support.""The solution's existing SaaS platform for data integration gives us an edge.""It is quite 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.""What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace.""Data migration is the most valuable feature of Oracle GoldenGate."

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Cons
"I would like the stability to improve.""The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult.""They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized.""The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required.""V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working.""Pushdown optimization could be improved.""Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,""Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."

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"The GoldenGate license is very costly.""Lacks the ability to become a full-scale ETL tool.""Oracle GoldenGate can enhance its functionality by enabling the merging of multiple migrations into one.""It would be great if Oracle added some enhanced features or more functionalities to Oracle GoldenGate.""Oracle GoldenGate could improve the price.""The process of transforming the data between two different databases is inefficient and needs to be improved.""It should be easier to integrate this solution with non-Oracle databases, including cloud-based solutions hosted on Azure.""Oracle GoldenGate's installation is not user-friendly, we had to read a lot of documentation for the setup and configuration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "An annual package license fee is required."
  • "The cost of PowerExchange is reasonable. It does not rely on complicated formulas or unrealistic equations. The pricing model is straightforward. There is one component, and real-time integration is included. Some other solutions require purchasing additional modules or third-party plugins for this capability."
  • "It's expensive. In fact, nobody would buy any product of Informatica if the price was the only consideration. It costs money, and it doesn't come cheap, but it provides value for money in many ways."
  • "There is a need to pay towards the licensing cost of the product. It is an expensive product."
  • "Many users don't prefer to use the product, considering the high costs attached to the licensing part of the solution."
  • "The product is not very expensive."
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  • "The one feature that I think Oracle could perhaps consider is, at the moment, the Veridata option is an extra cost. Golden Gate is an expensive product. You pay a lot for the best. But not including the Veridata license to prove that everything is working correctly... The big improvement for me would be to have that license built in. That would take it to the next level. That would make it a much better product. You may want to look at buying term licenses if you've just got a single migration to do. In that situation, you might want a term license for perhaps a year to save a lot of money, rather than buying a perpetual license."
  • "The licensing model should be improved to be more cost-effective for the end users."
  • "We do like the price of this solution."
  • "Pricing is based on anual licensing with additional costs for support packages."
  • "The price of this solution is good."
  • "We have an enterprise license for it. It might be for three years or so. I'm not aware of any additional costs to the standard licensing fee."
  • "Its price can be better. It is a bit crazy, and its licensing is very difficult to understand. I would rate it one out of five in terms of pricing. There don't seem to be any additional costs."
  • "We have purchased corporate licensing to use Oracle GoldenGate."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is not very expensive. However, the price can grow depending on the customer’s needs and the data feed they want. It depends on how many tables and ingestion pipelines the customers have… more »
    Top Answer:Informatica is now moving to the cloud. PowerExchange is not being promoted as it used to be. The product is not suitable for application integration. There are other tools in the market that are… more »
    Top Answer:The product is reliable for data integrity.
    Top Answer:It's a middleware. The price depends on the customers and the number of licenses they buy.
    Top Answer:Microservices Architecture is not user-friendly. It would have been great if the product would have stayed with the classic architecture and expanded into Microservices. However, it has completely… more »
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    Also Known As
    PowerExchange, Connectors
    GoldenGate
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    Overview

    Informatica PowerExchange Connectors provides high performance, out-of-the-box connectivity without having to develop custom data access programs.

    Oracle GoldenGate is a real-time data integration and database replication solution. It can detect data events and route them across networks at very low latencies and integrates well with 100s of combinations of non-Oracle databases, data stores, and clouds.

    Oracle GoldenGate Features

    Oracle GoldenGate has many valuable key features, including:

    • Simple to use web interface
    • Fast and easy installation or provisioning
    • Command line access via AdminClient that can run anywhere
    • RESTful APIs for DevOps
    • Offers built-in monitoring but also can be easily adapted to roll your own monitoring
    • APIs are protected by Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) authentication.

    Oracle GoldenGate Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using Oracle GoldenGate include:

    • Oracle GoldenGate is deeply integrated with the Oracle Database (logging, redo, backup and recovery layer, security, administration, data guard, data vault, autonomous database etc.).

    • It is the most stable, performant, and reliable CDC / replication solution for Oracle.

    • High performance: Oracle GoldenGate is capable of sub-second latency for data movement. featuring low impact capture, routing, transformation, and delivery of transactional data.

    • GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication tool that keeps pace with new and emerging innovations (security, features, data types, etc) in the core Oracle Database.

    • The solution supports a wide range of use cases, from conventional OLTP data replication and high availability to data lake ingestion or multi-cloud ingestion, SaaS application replication, and messaging replication.
    • GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication technology certified for Exadata, Exadata Cloud Service, and Exadata Cloud at Customer.

    • For fault-tolerance, GoldenGate has its own mechanism to keep track of how much work is completed and how much is pending. This mechanism is independent of any database and ensures, with the help of automatic gap-resolution, that no data loss occurs.

    • GoldenGate uses its own proprietary format files for keeping the committed data coming from the source database, making it independently functional irrespective of the database in use.

    • To maintain the performance and consistency, only committed data is sent. Uncommitted data is captured by GoldenGate, but is discarded after receiving a Rollback.

    • With GoldenGate, data sending is in “near real time,” which reduces the possibility of latency.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Oracle GoldenGate users.

    PeerSpot user Steve-J., Cloud Migration Software Consultant - UK & EMEA at 1PLACE, says, "What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace."

    Pinak S., Senior Manager of System and Database at ESL, mentions, “We like how in GoldenGate the heterogeneous database is supported. Sometimes the client actually needs a schedule and needs to ensure the state of databases for reporting purposes. With that in mind, we have been able to configure GoldenGate for certain schema. The solution is quite stable. They've recently improved the ease of implementation.”

    A Database Administrator at a manufacturing company explains, "It moves the data as you set it up, and it works. I am also very impressed with its stability and scalability. It is not super feature-rich, but the new releases have more functionality. It recently had more native integrations with Oracle Database. If you are using it against an Oracle database, it has a lot more functionality."

    An Oracle ERP DBA Consultant - Oracle Super Cluster T5-8 Admin at a government comments, "GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."






    Sample Customers
    ACH Food, BNSF Railway Company, Illinois State University
    Japan Exchange Group, Daewoo E&C, Herbalife, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Canon, Turk Telekom
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    Insurance Company25%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Insurance Company12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise80%
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    Buyer's Guide
    Informatica PowerExchange vs. Oracle GoldenGate
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica PowerExchange vs. Oracle GoldenGate and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Oracle GoldenGate is ranked 6th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Oracle GoldenGate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Comprehensive, capable of handling large volumes, and helpful for fast-paced movement of data". 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 PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SSIS, whereas Oracle GoldenGate is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Quest SharePlex, Azure Data Factory and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Oracle GoldenGate report.

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