Quest SharePlex Reviews

Quest SharePlex offers outstanding replication performance, handling complex data migration efficiently with core replication features like synchronization, data backup, and data transfer. Users appreciate its reliability, stability, and accuracy. SharePlex's ability to manage multiple projects across numerous databases is highly valued, using features like Compare and Repair to maintain data integrity. Additionally, PEP boosts scalability by replicating thousands of transactions, essential for heavy volumes. The Compare and Repair tool is also a favorite among users.

• "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."

Quest SharePlex requires enhancements in replication functionality, particularly filtering and data partitioning. Reporting features should clearly indicate replication status. Improved integration beyond Oracle and SQL is necessary. Adjusting architecture mid-migration appears complex. Users desire machine learning and AI for performance tuning and increased automation for installation and configuration in line with DevOps practices.

• "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."