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    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASQL Diagnostic Manager for Microsoft SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix Microsoft SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy Microsoft SQL Server and…

    $1,996

    per instance with first year maintenance included

    PostgreSQL

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.N/A
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    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
    Editions & Modules
    Standard via eCommerce
    1,996.00
    per instance with first year maintenance included
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    Pricing Offerings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager and PostgreSQL
    Feature
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% below category average
    PostgreSQL
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    Ratings
    Performance dashboard9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Top SQL9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical trend data9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization support5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    MySQL
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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    SQLite
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    User Ratings
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.3
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic ManagerPostgreSQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    PostgreSQL is best used for structured data, and best when following relational database design principles. I would not use PostgreSQL for large unstructured data such as video, images, sound files, xml documents, web-pages, especially if these files have their own highly variable, internal structure.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • SQLdm does a good job of providing information at a high level, but also allows me to drill down to specific queries and events if needed. I don't always need to sift through tons of details to get the information I need. It also gives a very wide range of information from SQL specific metrics, to OS metrics, to VM metrics, all the way up to host server metrics.
    • I like how the alert and notification system can be customized. For example, if you know a certain server regularly has long-running queries, you can adjust the alert to not fire unless a query has been running for 30 minutes while the rest of the servers fire after 30 seconds. That is very helpful in not being bombarded at dinner with alerts from a server similar to, "I've been at 90% cpu for 26 milliseconds!!!!!!!...and now it's back down to 30%" Good information to know, but not something you need to literally lose sleep over.
    • I like how you can configure different servers to be monitored differently. For example, you can have a group of servers called DEVELOPMENT that you can turn on heavier monitoring on so you can test how changes in applications might affect the SQL environment, but in the PRODUCTION group, you may only want to enable the heavier analysis and logging when performance issues are actively being reported.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • It works well with external data sources and runs on platforms with stable performance.
    • Clients can rest assured that their personal information will be safe and secure.
    • Many forums discuss setup and usage, and most are free.
    • Adding tooling applications to a computer is unlimited.
    • PostgreSQL runs on many OS platforms and supports ANSI SQL, stored procedures, and triggers.
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • Windows client has some issues. When you have small time intervals for your data collection, it can cause the client to become unresponsive and require you to restart it.
    • It takes more time to get the web client running than it does to get the windows client running.
    • The visualizations have been the same for the last eight years--could use a little bit of a refresh.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • Clearer indications on what is the query plan, to optimize the query
    • More out of the box, Postgres specific, SQL functions
    • It would be nice to have a more visual aid of the relationship between all tables, but possibly this depend more on the UI used
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    As a needed software for day to day development activities
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    Usability
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    Postgresql is the best tool out there for relational data so I have to give it a high rating when it comes to analytics, data availability and consistency, so on and so forth. SQL is also a relatively consistent language so when it comes to building new tables and loading data in from the OLTP database, there are enough tools where we can perform ETL on a scalable basis.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    PostgreSQL's availability is top notch. Apart from connection time-out for an idle user, the database is super reliable.
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    Performance
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The data queries are relatively quick for a small to medium sized table. With complex joins, and a wide and deep table however, the performance of the query has room for improvement.
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    There are several companies that you can contract for technical support, like EnterpriseDB or Percona, both first level in expertise and commitment to the software.
    But we do not have contracts with them, we have done all the way from googling to forums, and never have a problem that we cannot resolve or pass around. And for dozens of projects and more than 15 years now.
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    Online Training
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The online training is request based. Had there been recorded videos available online for potential users to benefit from, I could have rated it higher. The online documentation however is very helpful. The online documentation PDF is downloadable and allows users to pace their own learning. With examples and code snippets, the documentation is great starting point.
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    Implementation Rating
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The online documentation of the PostgreSQL product is elaborate and takes users step by step.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Idera, Inc.
    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL, Redgate SQL, and MonitorLogicMonitor are similar products to each other. We decided on IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL because our experience with locating heavy queries has been very good and it provides real-time monitoring of all servers and databases. It also allows you to have a large volume of historical data which allows you to analyze trends in the databases.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    Although the competition between the different databases is increasingly aggressive in the sense that they provide many improvements, new functionalities, compatibility with complementary components or environments, in some cases it requires that it be followed within the same family of applications that performs the company that develops it and that is not all bad, but being able to adapt or configure different programs, applications or other environments developed by third parties apart is what gives PostgreSQL a certain advantage and this diversification in the components that can be joined with it, is the reason why it is a great option to choose.
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    Scalability
    Idera, Inc.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The DB is reliable, scalable, easy to use and resolves most DB needs
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • Allows us to quickly set up ETL processes as soon as we installed SQL Server.
    • There's a lot of free/paid resources available online, decreasing development time.
    • A tool with plenty of experienced developers.
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    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • Easy to administer so our DevOps team has only ever used minimal time to setup, tune, and maintain.
    • Easy to interface with so our Engineering team has only ever used minimal time to query or modify the database. Getting the data is straightforward, what we do with it is the bigger concern.
    • It's free. You can't beat that.
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