We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, and Quest SharePlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It doesn't take too much time or effort to implement the solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"CDC is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It is quite scalable."
"GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."
"The product's microservice architecture is scalable."
"Since the world is going towards open source, the solution's heterogeneous data migration feature is very useful."
"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."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"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."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"The solution's licensing price is very expensive and could be made more competitive."
"It should be easier to integrate this solution with non-Oracle databases, including cloud-based solutions hosted on Azure."
"Monitoring must be a bit more enhanced."
"The tool's connections are disconnected at times. The tool needs to integrate other databases."
"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."
"Oracle GoldenGate can enhance its functionality by enabling the merging of multiple migrations into one."
"The solution needs to improve its latency, monitoring and support."
"The solution costs a lot."
"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 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."
"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."
