Quest SharePlex Reviews

Name: Quest SharePlex
Brand: Quest Software
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Quest SharePlex?

SharePlex database replication empowers your organization to achieve its database goals now and into the future. Make use of built-in monitoring, conflict resolution, data comparison and synchronization capabilities backed by award-winning support.

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Quest SharePlex is the #24 ranked solution in top Database Development and Management solutions and #50 ranked solution in top Data Integration Tools. PeerSpot users give Quest SharePlex an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Quest SharePlex is most commonly compared to Azure Data Factory: Quest SharePlex vs Azure Data Factory. Quest SharePlex is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Kristopher Wells

Oracle DBA at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

I would rate SharePlex's high availability, and disaster recovery features highly. It works as advertised in terms of rapid fill-over and switch-over opportunities. It reduces the migration time for a multi-terabyte database to an hour or less because it performs real-time replication. SharePlex reduces downtime and migration time exponentially. Something that could take 12 to 24 hours is cut down to one to two hours. By the time you start to migrate, the only remaining replication is a slight difference in data from the point when SharePlex has shut down, and the application has to also switch over to the new database. It allowed the company to replicate data more transparently. Some of the business executives probably don't even know it's there. It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems. It provides what is needed. There's little concern about whether or not it functions. It's allowed the company to achieve its objectives with its clients, reducing and minimizing downtime for substantial migrations and upgrades. It can reduce hardware and storage costs, but my company doesn't utilize it with high-availability architecture.

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ManishJain7

Architect, Database Administration at Maximus

The most valuable feature is the replication feature, since we are dealing with multiple projects at the same time. We are migrating close to 25 to 30 projects. If I just count the number of environments, it turns into probably 200 databases (more than 100 from the production environment). There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using SharePlex utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target.

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Abhijit Arun Gujare

Sr. Oracle DBA at Cisco

We use it for more than high availability and disaster recovery. It keeps the data replicating, live, to our other data center. To a certain extent it provides us with disaster recovery, but we rely heavily on it because if any network or other type of issue happens in the primary data center, due to SharePlex replication being real-time we have the data available almost instantaneously in the other data center. We have the primary data center in the U.S. and the other data center could be in Europe or Asia-Pacific. In addition to business continuity, which is what we primarily use SharePlex for, it helps us do all our maintenance, when there are both planned and unplanned outages. In general, it helps us avoid any kinds of outages. For planned maintenance, if the entire data center networking infrastructure has to be upgraded, thanks to the SharePlex replication we just fail over the application to the other data center and carry out the maintenance in the primary data center. That maintenance could take hours or even a day. SharePlex seamlessly replicates all the data. There is no data loss and all the backlog data is replicated and posted on all the other data centers within a few hours. It also enables us to maintain high availability while reducing the related hardware and storage costs.

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Quest SharePlex mindshare

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As of November 2024, the mindshare of Quest SharePlex in the Database Development and Management category stands at 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."
"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."

Room for Improvement

"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."
"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."
"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."

Pricing

"It's really good value for the money. There are some things they could improve on, but in terms of the pricing, features, and support, as a holistic package, we are not thinking of anything else at this point in time."
"It is not as expensive as Oracle GoldenGate and has worked really well within our budgets."

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