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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror vs. Oracle Real Application Clusters

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM PowerHA SystemMirror

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM offers PowerHA SystemMirror, for high availability clustering.N/A

    Oracle Real Application Clusters

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allow customers to run a single Oracle Database across multiple servers in order to maximize availability and enable horizontal scalability, while accessing shared storage. User sessions connecting to Oracle RAC instances can failover and safely replay changes during outages, without any changes to end user applications, hiding the impact of the outages from end users.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IBM PowerHA SystemMirrorOracle Real Application Clusters
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM PowerHA SystemMirrorOracle Real Application Clusters
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    IBM
    In every organization, we have some of the critical applications in on Premise datacentre were a lot of dependencies in a picture in terms of application as well as a business where we can make highly available to this application by using Power HA Systemmirror by using this we can avoid last time surprises.
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    Oracle
    Currently, as per RAC configuration, one node RAC or multinode RAC configuration is there. Customers who don't have licenses to run RAC simultaneously in multiple servers at the same time can opt for one node RAC configuration while they can still have the flavour of failover.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • High performance during peak business hours
    • No downtime during critical business operations
    • Easy updates
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    Oracle
    • Horizontal scalability
    • Seamless failover
    • No impact on business during failover
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    Cons
    IBM
    • IBM Sybase replication has been an issue for those who don't [use] MIMIX on their systems to keep the Sybase up to date.
    • The graphical interface really needs an update.
    • Technical support isn't as responsive as it should be.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Real Application Clusters is totally dependant on DBA's . It would be great if it can be simplified somehow
    • Its license cost
    • Enabling usage in standard edition
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    IBM
    As I am having long experience with this so no doubt, I am very confident for it where I can deploy easily and manage easily in terms of any issues can go with multiple logs and take further actions on it to fix the issue in a swift manner which matters a lot to me. That's why I have given higher priority to it.
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    Oracle
    Choosing Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server Cluster was actually a business requirement. As the nature of business demanded Oracle RDBMS. As a clustering solution, RAC comes into the picture easily, so it was not a hard choice to choose Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • There will is no single point of failure in PowerHA SystemMirror
    • High performance in PowerHA SystemMirror
    • TL upgrades are easy without any impact
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    Oracle
    • Outage on application downtime has greatly reduced
    • Customers confirmed, performance wise, it has been better after deployment of Oracle Real Application Clusters
    • Shared storage
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