Informatica PowerExchange and Oracle GoldenGate compete in the data integration and replication category. Oracle GoldenGate seems to have the upper hand with its robust data replication and real-time processing capabilities, especially for Oracle environments.
Features: Informatica PowerExchange emphasizes data transformation, connectivity, and real-time data handling, allowing for complex transformations and change data capture. Oracle GoldenGate's strengths lie in real-time data replication, Change Data Capture, and its ability to handle data migrations across platforms, ensuring reliability in heterogeneous environments.
Room for Improvement: Informatica PowerExchange is criticized for complexity, limited support for some data types, and high pricing, needing better real-time capabilities and integration. Oracle GoldenGate is costly and complex, requiring improved monitoring features and better integration with non-Oracle databases. Both products would benefit from enhanced user interfaces and straightforward licensing models.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Informatica PowerExchange is primarily on-premises with some public cloud integration, noted for responsive but occasionally delayed support. Oracle GoldenGate supports on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, with average technical support, facing promptness issues like its competitor. Informatica's support is noted for quicker response and slightly higher satisfaction.
Pricing and ROI: Informatica PowerExchange has a high cost justified by capabilities, with pricing based on capacity, and users seeing ROI through improved decision-making. Oracle GoldenGate is also expensive with complex licensing; users recommend time-based licenses for better cost management. PowerExchange is praised for affordability in many scenarios, while GoldenGate remains higher-priced yet effective in data replication.
Informatica PowerExchange Connectors provides high performance, out-of-the-box connectivity without having to develop custom data access programs.
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:
Oracle GoldenGate Benefits
Some of the benefits of using Oracle GoldenGate include:
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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