"The database schema is easy to define, manipulate and duplicate with respect to objects."
"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."
"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 is a solid product."
"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."
"Currently lacks a dedicated UI-based interface."
"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."
Earn 20 points
Actian NoSQL Object Database is ranked 1st in Non-Relational Databases with 1 review while CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management. Actian NoSQL Object Database is rated 7.0, while CA Datacom is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Actian NoSQL Object Database writes " User-friendly, easy to maintain and open source; lacks a dedicated UI-based interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". Actian NoSQL Object Database is most compared with Actian Versant FastObjects and Matisse, whereas CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS and CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS.
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