IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Database Vault comparison

"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."

"You could easily throw it onto a VM or add additional hardware. One central manager supports about a hundred managed units, so scalability is excellent.​"

"Our internal audit is keeping an eye out, and making sure that we're in compliance. Having the Guardium solution and its reporting helps us get through that process a lot more quickly and efficiently."

"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."

"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."

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

"The tech support is very knowledgeable."

"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."

"The product is fairly easy to implement."

"I haven’t seen any other database perform as well as Oracle."

"The product is easy to use and provides good performance."

"Oracle Database Vault has been valuable for database security in maritime companies and ports."

"We are currently facing a challenge because it does not offer data encryption by default, only data masking."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"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."

"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."

"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."

"I am struggling getting through to social."

"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."

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

"The solution is excessively expensive. There is a lot of room for improvement, considering the pricing model of the solution."

"Oracle's technical support could be improved."

"The product's cost could be better."

"The solution is relatively expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."

"The biggest challenge is the cost associated with the product, and the cost of maintaining. Everything is not translated directly to the benefits we see. There are benefits, yes, but if I were writing the check, would I buy Guardium? No."

"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."

"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."

"It is a very costly product."

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

"I rate the product's pricing a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The product is more costly than its competitors."