We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and Google BigTable based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"It is a solid product."
"This solution is much more scalable than more traditional databases - at least the ones we are aware of."
"I like the drive and the support of this program."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved."
CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while Google BigTable is ranked 14th in Non-Relational Databases. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while Google BigTable is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google BigTable writes "Extremely scalable, quite stable and easy to deploy". CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS and CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS, whereas Google BigTable is most compared with .
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