We performed a comparison between EDB Postgres Replication Server and NetApp Snapshot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."The most valuable features of EDB Postgres Replication Server are the many in-built functionalities, such as streaming. When compared to others solutions it is highly secure and does not have any breakage in replication. The replication is very fast. Additionally, in other solutions, the databases need to have a lot of manual intervention but with EDB Postgres Replication Server it is not needed."
"SnapMirror and Snapshot are both very reliable products."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the repurposing and backup features."
"This is a very mature product that does exactly what it needs to in taking temporary pictures of data states."
"It centralizes your data."
"Compared to the traditional way we did backups, with Snapshot it takes us less time. It has improved my organization by saving us time."
"NetApp Snapshot's most valuable features are the snapshot capabilities, you can take snaps of shared directories, files, and VMs."
"You never have to worry about maintaining millions of files stored across several thousands of virtual machines."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the snapshot and clone capabilities."
"We tried to set up a reverse master-master set up, but currently, it is not available. it can be done only via logical replication using a paid version of BDR or some other technology. They allow like master-master. MySQL has already supported master-master and streaming."
"If your data is more dynamic and changes frequently, you need more granular retention levels and need to save it for a longer duration, then this becomes a real challenge."
"The licensing cost could be improved."
"The price could be improved a little bit."
"I would like to see cloud features added to the next release of this solution."
"The solution could include more databases and make it accessible to the DBAs. The automation process should be run in a way where it could be run from the database itself."
"The initial setup of NetApp Snapshot is not straightforward. It's not something that you can do just by clicking on the next step button. It has to be designed and it has to be implemented according to your network capabilities and the use case scenario."
"The company could update their products more regularly."
"The price could be a bit lower."
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EDB Postgres Replication Server is ranked 8th in Data Replication with 1 review while NetApp Snapshot is ranked 1st in Data Replication with 20 reviews. EDB Postgres Replication Server is rated 10.0, while NetApp Snapshot is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of EDB Postgres Replication Server writes "Beneficial continual replication, helpful support, and high replication performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Snapshot writes "A highly scalable and mature solution that integrates well with other tools and provides excellent features". EDB Postgres Replication Server is most compared with JumpMind SymmetricDS and Equalum, whereas NetApp Snapshot is most compared with NetApp SnapMirror, Hitachi Thin Image Advanced, Dell AppSync, DDN DataFlow and Dell RecoverPoint.
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