IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs jSonar comparison

"The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM."

"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."

"The tech support is very knowledgeable."

"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."

"The maturity of the agent is the most valuable feature of the solution"

"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."

"It can help with PCI compliance. It includes features like data masking, especially during queries, which supports compliance efforts."

"It allows us to run models against it and do reports against it without understanding the different database technologies."

"The centralization of the data is probably the most useful feature because we span multiple database technologies. We also find the GBDI portion of it very helpful."

"​It will not go as fast as you want. ​"

"It needs an integration with Optum."

"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."

"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."

"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."

"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."

"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."

"Right now, we're in the development phase for IBM Guardium Data Protection, so I don't have any recommendations about additional features and room for improvement in the solution. We're very excited to work on IBM Guardium Data Protection because we are new to the solution, and we're still exploring product features. We're very excited about integrations and use case creation, and it's only after six to eight months that I'll be able to share my recommendations in terms of additional features the solution should have. We did find some difficulty in deploying IBM Guardium Data Protection here in Pakistan because of the lack of resources."

"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. Right now, it's a little bit of a complicated product to use. Another problem that we have is with encrypted traffic on Oracle. This is because it requires a database outage. That's a pain in the butt because you're monitoring critical systems, and they don't like outages."

"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

"The price is good for the quality of the solution."

"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD."

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."

"I know it's not cheap."