We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Oracle GoldenGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The scalability is excellent."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"It is quite scalable."
"The most valuable features of Oracle GoldenGate are the schema application and performance."
"Many of the features of Oracle GoldenGate are valuable. We use Oracle databases and this tool is from Oracle, making it have superior compatibility."
"We use the tool to pull on-prem data."
"I am impressed with the tool's possibility of integrating different systems in a unified place."
"GoldenGate enables us to merge and transform data from various sources in real time. It's a powerful tool that can read and load most data sources."
"You can use Oracle GoldenGate as a DR for your system."
"The solution is useful for data transformation."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"IBM CDC has one central control while Oracle GoldenGate has two controls. In IBM CDC we can do all things in frontend. The solution needs to incorporate a feature where we can connect it to a standby database."
"The main problem of Oracle GoldenGate is that sometimes, the processes get abended. Data consistency is also challenging."
"It's stable but you have to know how to maintain it. That's why it's not 10 out of 10 for me. There are some bugs, there are some issues here and there. All of a sudden your process is not working and you have to figure out why, and sometimes it's not so clear."
"Troubleshooting issues is not always the easiest. It should be easier to troubleshoot. Their support can also be improved. They don't read your problem statement and waste a lot of time. GoldenGate for big data is actually a separate license. It is sort of a separate product, but it might fall underneath your GoldenGate category. If we're talking about big data, its interaction with big data sources is poorly documented."
"The solution costs a lot."
"Additional performance metrics should be added and visible in a dashboard, displayed in a detailed manner."
"Oracle GoldenGate could improve the price."
"I find the user interface to be difficult for non-technical people."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Oracle GoldenGate is ranked 6th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Oracle GoldenGate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle GoldenGate writes "Performs real-time replication without data loss, but we cannot do much automation". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SSIS, whereas Oracle GoldenGate is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Quest SharePlex, Azure Data Factory and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Oracle GoldenGate report.
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