We performed a comparison between Quest Spotlight and SQL Sentry 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."The tool is a SaaS product where I just need to type a URL and start with the design process. I can integrate all elements of source control like GitHub, GitLab, etc. The tool also supports authentication-related provisions like SSH."
"I consider the solution very scalable."
"Its dashboards are most valuable. The drill-down of the dashboards is useful."
"To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product."
"This solution has identified blocking, deadlock, memory pressure, and high CPU consumption issues."
"The software does not support webhooks. It doesn't support advanced versions of APIs. The tool also doesn't support advanced versions of specifications. The change that we do in one part of the model is not reflected throughout the specification. There are also some mutations in the clones. I am not able to do a local source control with the product as well."
"There's no reporting with this tool, and there really should be. They should add that into future releases."
"Some customizations of the dashboard, such as having backup reports, would be useful."
"If we can get details on wait types from system views, it will help identify a more detailed root cause."
"There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts."
Quest Spotlight is ranked 6th in Database Development and Management with 4 reviews while SQL Sentry is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Quest Spotlight is rated 8.8, while SQL Sentry is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Quest Spotlight writes "Good tool for the design and development of public APIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Sentry writes "Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times". Quest Spotlight is most compared with Quest Foglight for Databases, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, whereas SQL Sentry is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Quest Foglight for Databases.
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