We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"It's a robust solution."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"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 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."
"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."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Quest SharePlex is ranked 25th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Quest SharePlex is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest SharePlex writes "It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Quest SharePlex is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, AWS Database Migration Service, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Fivetran. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Quest SharePlex report.
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