We performed a comparison between Quest SharePlex and SSIS 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."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."
"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."
"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."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"SSIS' most valuable feature is its reporting services."
"It's a competent product."
"The most valuable features of SSIS are that it works with the query language and it can import data from different sources."
"The initial setup of this solution is very straightforward."
"The script component is very powerful, things that you cannot normally do, is feasible through C#."
"The workflow features have been very valuable. You can have automated workflows and all the steps are controlled. The workflow functionality of integration services is excellent."
"The solution is easy to use and developer friendly."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that you can take data from other servers which are not MS SQL Server or Oracle."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."
"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."
"SSIS sometimes hangs, and there are some problems with servers going down after they've been patched."
"We'd like them to develop data exploration more."
"Future releases should improve the data lineage, as it currently is not good."
"I come from a coding background and this tool is graphically based. Sometimes I think it's cumbersome to do mapping graphically. If there was a way to provide a simple script, it would be helpful and make it easier to use."
"The creation of the measure in the DAC's model could be improved."
"SSIS is stable, but extensive ETL data processing can have some performance issues."
"Involving a data lake or data engineering aspects would be useful. While it is there, we need more features included."
"It's difficult to refactor SSIS. It gets cumbersome to reuse the solution."
Quest SharePlex is ranked 24th in Data Integration with 5 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. Quest SharePlex is rated 9.0, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Quest SharePlex writes "It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". Quest SharePlex is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Fivetran, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue. See our Quest SharePlex vs. SSIS report.
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