Fivetran vs Oracle GoldenGate comparison

Fivetran and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.9, while Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Fivetran holds a 2.3% mindshare in DI, compared to Oracle’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Oracle GoldenGate and Fivetran compete in the data integration and replication category. Oracle GoldenGate has the upper hand in real-time replication capabilities and seamless integration with Oracle products, whereas Fivetran is noted for its simplicity and ease of use.

Features: Oracle GoldenGate excels in real-time data replication across various databases including SQL Server, DB2, and Oracle, and supports heterogeneous databases with low impact. It integrates seamlessly with big data and cloud environments, providing high stability and scalability. Fivetran offers user-friendly simplicity with robust managed pipelines and seamless integration with DBT for data transformation. It provides real-time syncing and effortless integration addition.

Room for Improvement: Oracle GoldenGate faces challenges with licensing costs, complex setup, especially in RAC environments. Users suggest the need for more intuitive interfaces and enhanced documentation. Fivetran requires improved data pipeline observability, more connectors, and better support for customization. High pricing for data-intensive sources and limited features like reverse ETL are noted areas for enhancement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle GoldenGate typically deployed in on-premises and hybrid cloud settings, needs significant technical expertise for setup. Customer service could improve in prompt issue escalation and technical support. Fivetran, primarily cloud-deployed, is praised for its quick setup and intuitive interface. Customer service needs better interaction persistence and faster support.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle GoldenGate is expensive with complex licensing but offers excellent ROI for disaster recovery and data migration projects. More flexible licensing could enhance its value. Fivetran's pricing starts high but decreases with increased usage. Cost advantages are seen with licenses needed only for production environments, justified by ease of use and data management capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Data Integration

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (7th)

Oracle GoldenGate

Ranking in Data Integration

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate is 4.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Erik Jones

Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI

Fivetran has room for improvement in data pipeline observability. The Fivetran logs are fairly basic, compared to, for example, the insight Fivetran gives into helping users understanding the performance of data pipelines. So I think their observability into the pipeline itself could be improved. In addition, Fivetran is in the very early stages of allowing other companies to access its metadata API, but that's something that could use improvement, and I know that they're working on right now. We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool. It would be nice if Fivetran offered both their regular offering plus the reverse ETL option as well.

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Vijay Manoharan

IT Technical Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Performs real-time replication without data loss, but we cannot do much automation

The setup with the classic GoldenGate architecture was easy. Oracle has now moved to Microservices Architecture. It is a real pain. There are a lot of new things we have to learn. I rate the ease of setup of the classic architecture a seven out of ten. For Microservices, I rate the ease of setup a three out of ten. The deployment takes a couple of hours. We need one system administrator to deploy the tool. We need to maintain the tool. We are a team of four people. We need at least three people for maintenance. The time taken for maintenance depends on how big the environment is. We spend a lot of time on maintenance because our environment is big.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"SysTrack load is the best feature."

"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."

"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."

"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."

"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."

"Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase"

"The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."

"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."

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"The replication of the data table is one of the best features."

"GoldenGate enables us to merge and transform data from various sources in real time. It's a powerful tool that can read and load most data sources."

"GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."

"Oracle GoldenGate helps to select and target specific tables for replication. Any changes or operations on those tables are immediately reflected in the source and target environments."

"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."

"It allows us to migrate from one system to another, from one server to another, with no downtime, no outage. We can get the data synchronized with multiple databases and then switch the connectivity across to the new servers."

"With Oracle GoldenGate, you can easily sync the tables and put them into the ODS database."

"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."

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Cons

"The environment must be more development-friendly."

"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."

"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."

"I would like Fivetran to implement additional resource monitoring and restriction policies."

"Fivetran could improve in the area of customization, especially in how they socialize their tools."

"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."

"The connections with SAP must be improved."

"There is not a lot of options to customize the pipeline, and the cost is high."

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"In some cases, expectations were not met, especially when specific tables were expected to be disabled, and changes were anticipated in the target environment. We had to take backups from the source and refresh the address to address this."

"The GoldenGate license is very costly."

"A clean and user-friendly graphical interface based on common design principles would be beneficial."

"The product lacks some features and it's expensive."

"Monitoring must be a bit more enhanced."

"It's stable but you have to know how to maintain it. That's why it's not 10 out of 10 for me. There are some bugs, there are some issues here and there. All of a sudden your process is not working and you have to figure out why, and sometimes it's not so clear."

"It should be easier to integrate this solution with non-Oracle databases, including cloud-based solutions hosted on Azure."

"Microservices Architecture is not user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In the first year, we were given a very good discount. It was approximately 20,000 Euros per year. In the third year, we purchased credit for two years and the price was 33,000 Euros per year."

"I would say they're a little bit on the expensive side, and their contract process is not particularly good, but there is a lot of potential flexibility."

"I rate the pricing a six out of ten."

"The solution is affordable."

"The product is reasonably expensive"

"When you have a lot of workflows and complex use cases, pricing goes down as you use it more."

"The licensing costs are extremely high for the usage of somebody who has one GB or two GB of usage per day for real-time traffic. There are many other players in the market which are similarly priced or competitively priced. On average per month, it used to come around 12,000-15,000 USD, which is very high."

"Fivetran is very expensive, and its database-driven pricing model is outdated."

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"The price of Oracle GoldenGate should be lowered. It is expensive compared to other solutions."

"Oracle GoldenGate's cost is high."

"We have purchased corporate licensing to use Oracle GoldenGate."

"The tool is a bit expensive."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for Oracle GoldenGate, which is very expensive."

"The solution would be costly for a small organization."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"Oracle GoldenGate's license can be expensive compared to other solutions like Qlik Replicate or SAP Replicate."

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Mar 31, 2014

Oracle GoldenGate vs. Oracle Active Dataguard

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

30%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?

As a user of HVR Software I followed this deal closely. Fivetran is apparently trying to establish more in its sector and by buying an already established data replication software, they become som...

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Does HVR Software provide reliable insights?

I honestly can't think of another data replication software that can give you better statistics and insight than HVR Software. There's the feature for topology and statistics and both of them can ...

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How much traffic can HVR Software handle?

As someone who works at a company where a high volume of information is replicated and has tried several data replication softwares, I can tell you that you're looking at the right one. HVR Softwar...

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What do you like most about Oracle GoldenGate?

The product is reliable for data integrity.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle GoldenGate?

The pricing of Oracle GoldenGate is quite high. However, its cost-effectiveness stems from its unique features that are not commonly available in other products. Still, it is not cheap, and I would...

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What needs improvement with Oracle GoldenGate?

There is room for improvement in Oracle GoldenGate's pricing, which is a bit high. Additionally, the configuration process could be made simpler. Although it serves well, these aspects could be imp...

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

Fivetran is a data integration and migration solution that centralizes data from various sources into a data warehouse (such as Snowflake or BigQuery) for analytics. Its most valuable features include replication and managed pipelines, integration with DBT for data transformation, and many source connections.

Fivetran is easy to use, with fast data migration and an intuitive portal for easy setup and troubleshooting. It has helped organizations integrate and manage data, saving time and resources.

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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