Equalum pros and cons

4.6 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Equalum offers enhanced data integration and replication, leveraging technologies such as Kafka and Spark. It improves Oracle LogMiner performance, synchronizing vast records swiftly. Aimed at large enterprises, it ensures immediate data accuracy across platforms, prioritizing CDC replication and ETL. However, Equalum's notification system needs refinement with specific alerts. Expansion in native connectors and alignment with Git strategies are required. Security must cater to project-specific access, and better integration with other vendors is necessary.

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PROS

Performance improvements are significant when using Oracle Binary Log Parser, reducing synchronization time dramatically, from minutes to seconds for 60 million records.

The combination of Kafka and Spark with CDC capabilities offers a powerful and unique data integration and replication tool, making Equalum stand out.

Equalum provides a real-time environment ensuring instantaneous data accuracy and consistency across different platforms, which is crucial for sectors like finance.

Architectural use cases are unified on a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple modules and enhancing system performance for data processing tasks, reducing them from days to hours.

The focus on CDC replication, streaming ETL, and batch ETL provides comprehensive and detailed coverage not found in other multi-feature solutions, resulting in a rich and specialized platform.

CONS

Equalum's notification system sends alerts in bulk, notifying all project activities instead of just the relevant ones.

It needs to expand capabilities in target and source connectors, including native connectors for large data sources and databases.

The deployment of flows does not align with typical Git branching and CI/CD strategies.

Security management could benefit from project-based access control rather than tenant-based to isolate project-specific data.

Lacks proven integration with other vendors, impacting clients seeking a multi-vendor approach.

Equalum Pros review quotes

reviewer1525674

Managing Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Mar 8, 2021

It's a really powerful platform in terms of the combination of technologies they've developed and integrated together, out-of-the-box. The combination of Kafka and Spark is, we believe, quite unique, combined with CDC capabilities. And then, of course, there are the performance aspects. As an overall package, it's a very powerful data integration, migration, and replication tool.

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reviewer1528083

Software Engineer Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

All our architectural use cases are on a single platform, not multiple platforms. You don't have to dump into different modules because it is the same module everywhere.

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Shirin Kanchwala

Database Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 24, 2021

The main impact for Oracle LogMiner is the performance. Performance is drastically reduced if you use the solution’s Oracle Binary Log Parser. So, if we have 60 million records, initially it used to take a minute. Now, it takes a second to do synchronization from the source and target tables.

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Hendrik Oskar Schouten

Partner at Gulf Consulting

Apr 5, 2021

Equalum provides a single platform for core architectural use cases, including CDC replication, streaming ETL, and batch ETL. That is important to our clients because there is no other single-focus product that covers these areas in that much detail, and with this many features on the platform. The fact that they are single-minded and focused on CDC and ETL makes this such a rich solution. Other solutions cover these things a little bit in their multi-function products, but they don't go as deep.

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reviewer1530513

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Mar 14, 2021

Equalum has resulted in system performance improvements in our organization. Now, I am ingressing data off of multiple S3 sources, doing data processing, and formatting a schema. This would usually take me a couple of days, but now it takes me hours.

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Joel Buck

Director of Enterprise Architecture at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2021

Equalum is real-time. If you are moving from an overnight process to a real-time process, there is always a difference in what reports and analytics show compared to what our operational system shows. Some of our organizations, especially finance, don't want those differences to be shown. Therefore, going to a real-time environment makes the data in one place match the data in another place. Data accuracy is almost instantaneous with this tool.

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reviewer1964886

Ingestion Solutions Head of Data at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Oct 31, 2022

I found two features in Equalum that I consider the most valuable. One is that Equalum is a no-code tool. You can do your activities on its graphical interface, which doesn't require complex knowledge of extracting, changing, or loading data. Another feature of Equalum that I like the most is that it monitors the data transfers and tells you if there's any issue so that you can quickly check and correct it. Equalum also tells you where the problem lies, for example, if it's a hardware or communication issue.

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Equalum Cons review quotes

reviewer1525674

Managing Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Mar 8, 2021

They need to expand their capabilities in some of the targets, as well as source connectors, and native connectors for a number of large data sources and databases. That's a huge challenge for every company in this area, not just Equalum.

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reviewer1528083

Software Engineer Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

I should be able to see only my project versus somebody else's garbage. That is something that would be good in future. Right now, the security is by tenants, but I would like to have it by project, e.g., this project has this source and flows in these streams, and I have access to this on this site.

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Shirin Kanchwala

Database Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 24, 2021

Right now, they have a good notification system, but it is in bulk. For example, if I have five projects running and I put a notification, the notification comes back to me for all five projects. I would like the notification to come back only for one project.

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Hendrik Oskar Schouten

Partner at Gulf Consulting

Apr 5, 2021

There is not enough proven integration with other vendors. That is what needs to be worked on. Equalum hasn't tested anything between vendors, which worries our clients. We need more proven vendor integration. It is an expensive product and it needs to support a multi-vendor approach.

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reviewer1530513

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Mar 14, 2021

Their UI could use some work. Also, they could make it just a little faster to get around their user interface. It could be a bit more intuitive with things like keyboard shortcuts.

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Joel Buck

Director of Enterprise Architecture at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2021

The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy.

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reviewer1964886

Ingestion Solutions Head of Data at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Oct 31, 2022

If you need to use the basic features of Equalum, for example, you don't even need data integration, then many competitors in the market can give you basic features. For instance, if you need batch ETL, you can pick among solutions in the market that have been around longer than Equalum. What needs improvement in Equalum is replication, as it could be faster. Equalum also needs better integration with specific databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

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