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We performed a comparison between Oracle GoldenGate and VMware Tanzu GemFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace.""GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server.""What I like most about Oracle GoldenGate is that it supports cross-platform migrations. For example, Oracle GoldenGate could pump data from one type of system to another such as the data from Oracle DB to SQL Db2.""This solution provides us with real-time replication and it does not affect the performance of other operations, which is very important to us.""The most valuable features of Oracle GoldenGate are the schema application and performance.""The solution's existing SaaS platform for data integration gives us an edge.""The replication of the data table is one of the best features.""It moves the data as you set it up, and it works. I am also very impressed with its stability and scalability. It is not super feature-rich, but the new releases have more functionality. It recently had more native integrations with Oracle Database. If you are using it against an Oracle database, it has a lot more functionality."

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"The solution improved our site reliability."

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Cons
"It would be great if Oracle added some enhanced features or more functionalities to Oracle GoldenGate.""Regarding improvements, the focus should be on addressing data quality issues and minimizing delays, particularly in Oracle databases. The technical support should be improved as well. Additionally, in terms of features, it would be great if the solution could support APIs. The support is not friendly. They don’t respond on time.""Oracle GoldenGate's installation is not user-friendly, we had to read a lot of documentation for the setup and configuration.""The solution is quite costly, and if they could reduce their pricing, it would be more economical to implement.""The tool's connections are disconnected at times. The tool needs to integrate other databases.""The problem with GoldenGate is it is very complex to use. You need heavyweight skills to use it.""What needs improvement in Oracle GoldenGate is the support. Another feature that needs to be improved in the solution is its GUI. It would be useful for programmers or users to be able to work from the GUI, not just from the command line. Simplifying how Oracle GoldenGate is used would also make the solution better.""The solution's licensing price is very expensive and could be made more competitive."

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"The initial deployment was a little difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The one feature that I think Oracle could perhaps consider is, at the moment, the Veridata option is an extra cost. Golden Gate is an expensive product. You pay a lot for the best. But not including the Veridata license to prove that everything is working correctly... The big improvement for me would be to have that license built in. That would take it to the next level. That would make it a much better product. You may want to look at buying term licenses if you've just got a single migration to do. In that situation, you might want a term license for perhaps a year to save a lot of money, rather than buying a perpetual license."
  • "The licensing model should be improved to be more cost-effective for the end users."
  • "We do like the price of this solution."
  • "Pricing is based on anual licensing with additional costs for support packages."
  • "The price of this solution is good."
  • "We have an enterprise license for it. It might be for three years or so. I'm not aware of any additional costs to the standard licensing fee."
  • "Its price can be better. It is a bit crazy, and its licensing is very difficult to understand. I would rate it one out of five in terms of pricing. There don't seem to be any additional costs."
  • "We have purchased corporate licensing to use Oracle GoldenGate."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is reliable for data integrity.
    Top Answer:It's a middleware. The price depends on the customers and the number of licenses they buy.
    Top Answer:Microservices Architecture is not user-friendly. It would have been great if the product would have stayed with the classic architecture and expanded into Microservices. However, it has completely… more »
    Top Answer:The solution improved our site reliability.
    Top Answer:The price is pretty good. It is a CPU-based system. The price depends on how big our cluster is.
    Top Answer:When we had outages, we had timeouts. Sometimes, the nodes would drop out of a cluster. Therefore, the applications would get timeouts. There is a newer version out that we're planning to upgrade to… more »
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    Also Known As
    GoldenGate
    GemFire, Pivotal GemFire
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    Overview

    Oracle GoldenGate is a real-time data integration and database replication solution. It can detect data events and route them across networks at very low latencies and integrates well with 100s of combinations of non-Oracle databases, data stores, and clouds.

    Oracle GoldenGate Features

    Oracle GoldenGate has many valuable key features, including:

    • Simple to use web interface
    • Fast and easy installation or provisioning
    • Command line access via AdminClient that can run anywhere
    • RESTful APIs for DevOps
    • Offers built-in monitoring but also can be easily adapted to roll your own monitoring
    • APIs are protected by Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) authentication.

    Oracle GoldenGate Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using Oracle GoldenGate include:

    • Oracle GoldenGate is deeply integrated with the Oracle Database (logging, redo, backup and recovery layer, security, administration, data guard, data vault, autonomous database etc.).

    • It is the most stable, performant, and reliable CDC / replication solution for Oracle.

    • High performance: Oracle GoldenGate is capable of sub-second latency for data movement. featuring low impact capture, routing, transformation, and delivery of transactional data.

    • GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication tool that keeps pace with new and emerging innovations (security, features, data types, etc) in the core Oracle Database.

    • The solution supports a wide range of use cases, from conventional OLTP data replication and high availability to data lake ingestion or multi-cloud ingestion, SaaS application replication, and messaging replication.
    • GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication technology certified for Exadata, Exadata Cloud Service, and Exadata Cloud at Customer.

    • For fault-tolerance, GoldenGate has its own mechanism to keep track of how much work is completed and how much is pending. This mechanism is independent of any database and ensures, with the help of automatic gap-resolution, that no data loss occurs.

    • GoldenGate uses its own proprietary format files for keeping the committed data coming from the source database, making it independently functional irrespective of the database in use.

    • To maintain the performance and consistency, only committed data is sent. Uncommitted data is captured by GoldenGate, but is discarded after receiving a Rollback.

    • With GoldenGate, data sending is in “near real time,” which reduces the possibility of latency.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Oracle GoldenGate users.

    PeerSpot user Steve-J., Cloud Migration Software Consultant - UK & EMEA at 1PLACE, says, "What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace."

    Pinak S., Senior Manager of System and Database at ESL, mentions, “We like how in GoldenGate the heterogeneous database is supported. Sometimes the client actually needs a schedule and needs to ensure the state of databases for reporting purposes. With that in mind, we have been able to configure GoldenGate for certain schema. The solution is quite stable. They've recently improved the ease of implementation.”

    A Database Administrator at a manufacturing company explains, "It moves the data as you set it up, and it works. I am also very impressed with its stability and scalability. It is not super feature-rich, but the new releases have more functionality. It recently had more native integrations with Oracle Database. If you are using it against an Oracle database, it has a lot more functionality."

    An Oracle ERP DBA Consultant - Oracle Super Cluster T5-8 Admin at a government comments, "GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."






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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Insurance Company8%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Oracle GoldenGate is ranked 6th in Data Integration with 47 reviews while VMware Tanzu GemFire is ranked 19th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Oracle GoldenGate is rated 8.2, while VMware Tanzu GemFire is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle GoldenGate writes "Performs real-time replication without data loss, but we cannot do much automation". 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". Oracle GoldenGate is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Quest SharePlex, Azure Data Factory and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas VMware Tanzu GemFire is most compared with Nutanix Database Service and VMware Postgres.

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