IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs Oracle GoldenGate comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.1, while Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. IBM holds a 1.7% mindshare in DI, compared to Oracle’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM 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 IBM Cloud Pak for Data are competitors in the data management and replication market. Oracle GoldenGate appears to have the upper hand in real-time data replication effectiveness, while IBM Cloud Pak for Data provides strong features in data virtualization and AI capabilities.

Features: Oracle GoldenGate provides seamless real-time data replication with robust change data capture, supporting a variety of heterogeneous databases. It is praised for its stability and scalability in various environments. On the other hand, IBM Cloud Pak for Data excels in data virtualization and offers comprehensive reporting features. It leverages Watson Studio and Machine Learning for advanced data processing and is designed for multi-cloud containerization.

Room for Improvement: Oracle GoldenGate faces setup challenges, including high supplemental logging storage needs and complex DDL replication, making it costly and demanding skilled users. Oracle’s support and documentation should be improved. IBM Cloud Pak for Data could simplify initial infrastructure requirements and increase connector support, with enhancements needed in AI lifecycle management and UI responsiveness for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle GoldenGate supports diverse environments, including hybrid clouds, though it encounters complexity in support interactions. IBM Cloud Pak for Data excels in public and hybrid cloud deployment with effective direct support, mainly experiencing challenges with support escalation processes in Oracle's technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle GoldenGate's pricing is perceived as high due to core-based licensing but offers a strong ROI when effectively used. IBM Cloud Pak for Data is costly for smaller organizations but remains competitive compared to technologies like Informatica, making it appealing to larger enterprises.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Ranking in Data Integration

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (3rd)

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 IBM Cloud Pak for Data is 1.7%, down from 1.8% 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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Murali B

Associate Manager at Ernst & Young

Provides IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines, but catalog searching needs to be improved

If people are with the existing stuff, I would definitely suggest they go with IBM Cloud Pak for Data. I usually recommend the solution for the financial sector, where I worked for about ten years. I worked with IBM for almost eight years. Unless they want to migrate to a new product completely, I recommend IBM Cloud Pak for Data to explore current business. It is easy to integrate the tool with other solutions. Except for metadata queries, metadata validations, and metadata integrations, I don't see any issues with the solution. I would recommend the solution to other users if it supports their existing infrastructure. Some people don't want to put their data in the cloud because they are concerned about how the data is secured with encryption and decryption. For such cases, we have listed out all the pros and cons of the solution to suggest them to users. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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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

"The most valuable feature of IBM Cloud Pak for Data is the Modeler flows. The ability to develop models using a graphical approach and the capability to connect to various sources, as well as the data virtualization capabilities, allow me to easily access and utilize data that is dispersed across different sources."

"What I found most helpful in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is containerization, which means it's easy to shift and leave in terms of moving to other clouds. That's an advantage of IBM Cloud Pak for Data."

"IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines are the most valuable features of the solution."

"DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources."

"The most valuable features of IBM Cloud Pak for Data are the Watson Studio, where we can initiate more groups and write code. Additionally, Watson Machine Learning is available with many other services, such as APIs which you can plug the machine learning models."

"Its data preparation capabilities are highly valuable."

"It is a scalable solution, and we have had no issues with its scalability in our company. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten."

"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."

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"This solution has a well-known procedure for troubleshooting and tuning the performance, providing for smooth operation."

"Since the world is going towards open source, the solution's heterogeneous data migration feature is very useful."

"You can use Oracle GoldenGate as a DR for your system."

"I am impressed with the tool's possibility of integrating different systems in a unified place."

"Ease of installation, maintenance and powerful outputs and supporting Big Data and Cloud environment as well as OGGCS (Oracle Golden Gate Cloud Service)."

"The product's microservice architecture is scalable."

"The platform's most helpful features are its speed and its guarantee of data replication from one database to another."

"One feature that stands out for me is the data center capability."

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Cons

"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."

"One thing that bugs me is how much infrastructure Cloud Pak requires for the initial deployment. It doesn't allow you to start small. The smallest permitted deployment is too big. It's a huge problem that prevents us from implementing the solution in many scenarios."

"The technical support could be a little better."

"The solution's user experience is an area that has room for improvement."

"The solution could have more connectors."

"There is a solution that is part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data called Watson OpenScale. It is used to monitor the deployed models for the quality and fairness of the results. This is one area that needs a lot of improvement."

"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."

"One challenge I'm facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my company has around one hundred thousand mappings, so my team has been putting more effort into alternative ways to do things. Another area for improvement in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's more complicated to shift from on-premise to the cloud. Other vendors provide secure agents that easily connect with your existing setup. Still, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you have to perform connection migration steps, upgrade to the latest version, etc., which makes it more complicated, especially as my company has XML-based mappings. Still, the XML input and output capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Data have been discontinued, so I'd like IBM to bring that back."

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"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."

"In the future, I would appreciate a more user-friendly monitoring interface for easier management and troubleshooting."

"There is room for improvement in Oracle GoldenGate's pricing, which is a bit high."

"The process of transforming the data between two different databases is inefficient and needs to be improved."

"The problem with GoldenGate is it is very complex to use. You need heavyweight skills to use it."

"The main problem of Oracle GoldenGate is that sometimes, the processes get abended. Data consistency is also challenging."

"The solution's licensing price is very expensive and could be made more competitive."

"Additional performance metrics should be added and visible in a dashboard, displayed in a detailed manner."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM Cloud Pak for Data is expensive. If we include the training time and the machine learning, it's expensive. The cost of the execution is more reasonable."

"I think that this product is too expensive for smaller companies."

"For the licensing of the solution, there is a yearly payment that needs to be made. Also, since it is expensive, cost-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten."

"The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors."

"I don't have the exact licensing cost for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as my company is still finalizing requirements, including monthly, yearly, and three-year licensing fees. Still, on a scale of one to five, I'd rate it a three because, compared to other vendors, it's more complicated."

"It's quite expensive."

"Cloud Pak's cost is a little high."

"The solution is expensive."

"Pricing is based on anual licensing with additional costs for support packages."

"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."

"The price is high. Consequently, when clients or customers acquire the solution, they tend to utilize it to its maximum extent due to this factor."

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

"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."

"Oracle GoldenGate is a high-priced solution because it follows the core-based pricing model versus the software-based pricing model of other solutions."

"The solution is highly-priced."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors. The pricing also depends on the number of users.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

Previously, we used to extract the information in the DSX and the XML formats. IBM Cloud Pak for Data exports information mostly on the ISX, which is an encrypted format. The only challenge with th...

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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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Comparisons

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 17% 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 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data is a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations. Cloud-native by design, the platform unifies market-leading services spanning the entire analytics lifecycle. From data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps eliminate the need for costly, and often competing, point solutions while providing the information architecture you need to implement AI successfully.

Building on the streamlined hybrid-cloud foundation of Red Hat® OpenShift®, IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes advantage of the underlying resource and infrastructure optimization and management. The solution fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private cloud deployments. Find out how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can lower your total cost of ownership and accelerate innovation.

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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