We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Oracle Data Guard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is really scalable."
"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"The product is very stable."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"The most valuable aspect for me is undoubtedly the failover capability and the assurance of data safety provided by Oracle Data Guard."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."
"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"The solution can scale as needed."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
"There is an issue with their application on ODG. There were a lot of edits in the logs. Sometimes, we only get a little cue from the Data Guard Broker logs if there's an issue."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."
"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."
"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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