We evaluated GoldenGate. The cost was a deciding factor. Also, SharePlex was easier to set up, and the learning curve was also much shorter. Oracle's replication solution is comparable to SharePlex performance-wise, but SharePlex is more cost-effective. 

Previously, we did look at AWS DMS service, which is a data migration service. Whatever tests we did there, we were not really satisfied with the overall results. We found out that DMS doesn't handle LOB column migrations very well. It also isn't really that stable and recovering from failures wasn't that straightforward. Those were the two biggest factors that made us move away.

We really haven't evaluated anything other than GoldenGate, which was evaluated a few years back. The licensing cost and the support are what kept SharePlex our chosen product.

We really didn't go beyond the proof of concept with GoldenGate, so I can't comment on its performance. We didn't go into production with GoldenGate. But the factors that really made us retain Quest were the simple installation and configuration. We could be a little biased because we have been using the product for a while, but most of the DBAs agreed that GoldenGate was more complex to set up.

And the licensing of GoldenGate was expensive—two to three times more expensive than SharePlex. 

And when it came to support, we didn't get any indication from Oracle that we could have a different level of support when we ran into issues, such as getting someone really quickly on a WebEx session to go at an issue.

A proof of concept with GoldenGate was set up but wasn't completed, as GoldenGate wasn't fast enough (at that time - maybe it is today). GoldenGate was in scope, but failed in performance.