We performed a comparison between Nutanix Database Service and VMware Tanzu GemFire 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."It has wizards that are very helpful in the installation, and it handles automation as well as virtualization once deployed."
"The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective."
"AI has been deployed within Nutanix. It's very easy to provision the machine within minutes of the application orders. They can hand those over and work along with the AI team to get the data available quickly for business analysis."
"The most valuable feature is its robust infrastructure management tools."
"It has some very good features. It really works with multiple silos in terms of infrastructure, database updates, and migration. So many things are easy with Era."
"There are a lot of options for working with the database."
"One feature that is very good is the backup and validation process that's built into Era."
"We have an enterprise-level backup product that we're required to use, so we don't rely on Era's version. [But] it could be an awesome first-line backup. It's very elegant the way they designed it. It's quick and it doesn't take up nearly as much storage space as traditional backups. It would definitely help to save on tier-one storage."
"The solution improved our site reliability."
"It would be helpful if we could patch Windows operating systems with the solution."
"It should be able to be consumed by other customers because only the enterprise cloud customers are able to buy this software."
"Patch management is an issue as it regularly causes stability problems."
"The downside of this solution is that it's more expensive than its competitors."
"The initial setup was a little tedious and complex. If they could make the setup slightly more user-friendly, then that would definitely be beneficial. If they could give a clear indication of what ports are required across the business and multiple VLANs, then your prep work can be done beforehand and before you do the actual installation. Because the documentation that was provided was not 100 percent accurate, so we had to do a lot of custom firewall rules after we deployed Nutanix Era."
"If there were data integration services included with the platform then it would be interesting, and it would help us a lot."
"The graphical user interfaces could be much more user-friendly. They are already user-friendly, but they could be simpler so that we do not need L3 staff to handle them. If they were simpler, we could also have some command center or L1/L1.5 associates do some housekeeping activities on it."
"This solution could be improved by integrating with more database providers."
"The initial deployment was a little difficult."
Nutanix Database Service is ranked 5th in Database Development and Management with 16 reviews while VMware Tanzu GemFire is ranked 19th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Nutanix Database Service is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu GemFire is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Database Service writes "A single solution that provides you new deployments and monitoring as well as everything in one bucket". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu GemFire writes "The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult". Nutanix Database Service is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager, VMware Postgres and EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, whereas VMware Tanzu GemFire is most compared with VMware Postgres.
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