Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. SAP Replication Server

K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash.

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I asked questions about a warm standby and multicast replication. We ended up using bi-directional replication and a warm standby db. Having 3 or more live OLTP DB's where each was read-write was going to be difficult to manage for contention if the same table was being updated. We stuck with an easier solution to have only two OLTP's, and then used additional DB's as read-only DW's.

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• Great performance
• Great support
• Super-simple to use

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• guaranteed delivery
• high availability
• scalable
• low latency
• data transformation

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• Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
• Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)

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• Data Reconciliation Functionality.

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SAP support has been outstanding. They have quick response times and always meet their SLAs. Any time we have an issue that needs to be researched they are able to get back to us quickly with resolution.

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We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford

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Hands down Sybase has the best replication

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• Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
• Less time managing storage.

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• A positive is that it allow quick business decision making on the basis of real time data. Huge time saving for business.

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