Oracle GoldenGate vs. SharePlex

Oracle GoldenGate

221 Reviews and Ratings

SharePlex

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle GoldenGate	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate is a managed service providing a real-time data mesh platform, which uses replication to keep data highly available, and enabling real-time analysis.	$250 Per License
SharePlex	Score10 out of 10	N/A	SharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle GoldenGate

SharePlex

Data Integration: $250.00
Per License

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Pricing Offerings
Oracle GoldenGate	SharePlex
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Oracle GoldenGate	SharePlex
Considered Both Products	Oracle Verified User Chose Oracle GoldenGate It wasn't easy to set up replication to a message queue using SharePlex. We had challenges using the product when the application was doing a lot of "rollbacks to savepoint". SharePlex always showed a lag. When I was testing SharePlex, there was no way to offload the workload … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle GoldenGate Oracle Golden Gate is very user friendly product and very easy to install, setup and troubleshoot. Quest SharePlex is bit complicated compared to Oracle Golden Gate and has less features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle GoldenGate SharePlex offers a cheaper alternative and is sometimes faster performing as well for simpler replication needs, but Oracle GoldenGate comes with tonnes of features that I have not seen in any other competing technology. OGG offers real time flat file generation, integration … Incentivized Helpful? Gurcan Orhan Data WareHouse Architect in Information Technology at Ekol Logistics (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate We switched from SharePlex of Quest Software because of licensing costs. Incentivized Helpful? A S M Omar Faruq Chief of Database Operations in Information Technology at Therap Services, LLC (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate We used the SharePlex replication product about 6 years ago. It had limited functionalities, was not able to fulfill our needs. Incentivized Helpful? Jacob Biguvu Cloud DBA/Developer (Cloud and On-Premises) in Information Technology at Capital One, Walmart (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate They are system-limited. Oracle GoldenGate provides more flexibility to use in different use cases and topologies. Most of the other tools are not matured like the Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate is best compared to other tools in terms of high performance, configuration … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle GoldenGate We did an extensive POC a few years ago for a very large environment. GoldenGate's performance blew away all other options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle GoldenGate Oracle GoldenGate is a data integration and virtualization management solution for all businesses. It offers real time data integration and replication services for IT management. We liked Oracle pricing model since we already have a working relationship with them. Training was … Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Kumar Senior Database Engineer in Information Technology at LinkedIn (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate Streams is more complex to manage and have its limitations. Also it is deprecated by Oracle. Incentivized Helpful? Bryan Salerno Associate Director IT in Information Technology at Verizon Wireless (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate Much faster and more functionality than previous tools used Incentivized Helpful? Mahesh Jonnalagadda Sr. Oracle DBA \| Tech Lead in Information Technology at Bank of America (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate Equally as good as GoldenGate but not as comfortable as GoldenGate functionality wise. Incentivized Helpful? Johnny Wu Senior Oracle Database Administrator in Information Technology at New York University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle GoldenGate We chose GoldenGate initially because we have a heterogeneous database environment and it was very difficult to report across different data marts residing on different databases. Not only did it become very hard to maintain, the reports were also inaccurate and hard to … Incentivized Helpful?	Quest Software Sean Scott Oracle Database Administrator in Information Technology at Bodybuilding.com (Retail, 201-500 employees) Chose SharePlex SharePlex was a clear winner in comparison to its competitors. It beats GoldenGate on price, providing equivalent features and performance at a fraction of the price and without the need to license costly Oracle features at the database level. DB Visit was a strong contender … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Barrow DBA in Information Technology at OC Tanner Co. (Human Resources, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SharePlex At the time we did our proof of concept (2011), Shareplex was up and running within a couple of hours. The Goldengate techs were unable to get their product to work. Pricing for Shareplex was half of what Oracle quoted. Goldengate did not include monitoring or compare/repair … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Xu Director, Database Administration in Information Technology at Connexity, Inc. (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose SharePlex SharePlex is more robust than GoldenGate when it comes to replicating the particular transactions in our environment. GoldenGate has the advantage of supporting hetrogeneous databases, but it does not apply to us since we use a single database platform in this setting. In … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Oracle GoldenGate	SharePlex
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (41 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.6 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)