Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Oracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.N/A
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
VividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
Oracle Enterprise ManagerSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.2
14 Ratings
5% above category average
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
-
Ratings
Remote monitoring7.713 Ratings00 Ratings
Network device monitoring9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring7.914 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.8
14 Ratings
5% above category average
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
-
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Patch Management7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
Service configuration management9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory5.813 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based automation8.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
6.7
14 Ratings
13% below category average
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
-
Ratings
Performance data reports7.714 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting3.112 Ratings00 Ratings
Data visualization7.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Enterprise Manager
3.4
14 Ratings
59% below category average
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
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Data backup and recovery2.512 Ratings00 Ratings
Antivirus and malware management5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Administrator access control2.714 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle Enterprise ManagerSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(20 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Enterprise ManagerSolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details. OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
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SolarWinds
Computing resources consumed by the DB instance, DPA queries & wait time, deadlock conditions, virtual infrastructure resources. The addition of NPM & DPA integration as well as cross-correlation in the identification of issues with the network or server or DB is all stupid-proof. Monitoring is more than just health and resource consumption, it's also performance. DB performance analysis is key to maintaining healthy DB instances.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Database status. Being able to see which databases are up/down, at a glance, allows us to quickly react to issues.
  • Reporting. We report on last backups, daily status, a host of metrics, and compliance levels of all our databases. With reporting we come into the office with a set of "status" reports and we know instantly if a database has issues.
  • Metrics. We have a number of KPI's and SLA's we need to meet. Metrics applied to the databases allow us to stay on top of those requirements as well as fix common issues without a DBA needing to log in to assess the issue.
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SolarWinds
  • Simple to use and very easy to learn.
  • The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query.
  • DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support.
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Cons
Oracle
  • We also use OEM to monitor SQL Server. However, OEM only provided limited features for SQL Server. It would be nice if we can schedule backup jobs for SQL Server in OEM.
  • The ability to run SQL queries. You can't run queries in OEM. I have to go to SQL Developer or SQL PLUS to run. queries.
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SolarWinds
  • The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.
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Usability
Oracle
Navigation is clean and neat.
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SolarWinds
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Support Rating
Oracle
I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
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SolarWinds
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
Toad for Oracle is more suited for individual users who have a strong focus on database development, and it is not as comprehensive as Oracle Enterprise Manager. While it is quite decent in logical database layer tasks, such as schema objects and SQL, it lacks visibility into host level and I/O layer performance stats.
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SolarWinds
DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance.
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Professional Services
Oracle
I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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SolarWinds
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • When we were using Oracle GoldenGate, it made our life easy in terms of visually seeing the configuration and identifying issues easily
  • It also makes ASM management very easy instead of doing it in the command line
  • Creating policies and implementing certain standard configurations across all the databases is easy
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SolarWinds
  • What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Screenshots

Screenshot of The Profiler Dashboard is a powerful, dynamic dashboard for ranking and filtering activity on your servers: It can instantly show you what needs attention and it provides a unified view of all your database types that VividCortex monitors. It enables you to view and understand your system by profiling it according to its most significant attributes—customized and selected by you.Screenshot of This dashboard displays a list of queries and allows you to filter them with powerful specificity. Filters can be set according to query text, host, and timeframe when the query was first seen / last active.Screenshot of VividCortex captures an enormous amount of data, and the Summary Dashboard helps users make sense of it, reducing their time-to-insight. It features widgets with automatic displays for Top 5 Queries by Total Time, Top 5 Queries by User CPU, Application Overview, Critical Events, and more.Screenshot of VividCortex monitors thousands of metrics in your system, and the Charts and Dashboard’s navigation pane allows you to toggle, customize, and enable various categories of generated charts. You can then easily navigate and examine the charts’ metrics with mouseover and zoom capabilities.