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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle GoldenGate

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate is a managed service providing a real-time data mesh platform, which uses replication to keep data highly available, and enabling real-time analysis.

    $250

    Per License

    Toad Data Point

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AToad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow automation.

    $365

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    Oracle GoldenGateToad Data Point
    Editions & Modules
    Data Integration
    $250.00
    Per License
    Base Edition
    $365
    Pro Edition
    $528
    Offerings
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    Oracle GoldenGateToad Data Point
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
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    User Ratings
    Oracle GoldenGateToad Data Point
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (41 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    9.8
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    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle GoldenGateToad Data Point
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    I think it's a great product. We apply Oracle GoldenGate to several use cases in our organization. 1. Business Continuity Planning, 2. Query Offloading through data replication to a reporting instance of our data, 3. looking into data transformations to help support various queries for different teams within the business.
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    Quest Software
    Appropriate for general querying and some DBA work. It's the universal least-offensive solution for most environments - not best of breed, but not subject to unusual/extensive requirements. It just works. On the other hand, some functionality (e.g. data import/export, snippets) are perfunctory and minimal and seem to be either difficult or impossible to automate. If you need to streamline those operations, you'll be forced to rely on third-party solutions that mostly work on top of (instead of with) TOAD.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • As the product under the Oracle umbrella, it perfectly and natively supports the Oracle database very well.
    • For the standard scenario and use cases, the configuration is straight-forward (in our case uni-direction copy from source to target).
    • It is robust and the performance meets our SLA, even for a large amount of data volume.
    • The error report is not only detailed but hits the right points, so trouble shooting is easy.
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    Quest Software
    • Export data into excel.
    • Export data into excel using a pivot table functionality.
    • Navigation between windows is intuitive and easy to understand.
    • Good for SQL novices and experts alike.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • The earlier versions of Golden Gate were complex to use as there was no front end. All that works was the command line.
    • The cost of the product can be a detriment to most companies.
    • The product has been augmented over the years and has so many features that it can be overwhelming.
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    Quest Software
    • The workflow is a relatively new feature. Quest is adding additional functionality and the workflows are useful now.
    • Would be nice if the 'Automate' feature was a bit easier to use.
    • Would be nice if some of the SQL Editor features in the traditional interface worked better in the new workflow interface (although, these are being fixed with each release).
    • Would be nice if there were fewer releases.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate is a core part of our business.
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    Quest Software
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Once set up, it's very easy to use and keep running, it's getting to that point that can make it cumbersome to some. Also, depending on the data that you want to replicate, the configuration files can become quite cumbersome to maintain. Learning curve can be high for some who are not as experienced with databases and transactions.
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    Quest Software
    I find Toad Data Point easy to use for both the novice and the experienced business analyst. If all you desire is to access data and create spreadsheets...this is a snap. Toad Data Point actually has cool data analysis features built into it. The newer workflow interface makes automating steps a snap
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate has only gone down for us when the data being sent was bad.
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    Quest Software
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    Performance
    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate's performance is great for our use cases. Your mileage may vary.
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    Quest Software
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Oracle Support for Oracle GoldenGate has been quite responsive and quite helpful in the few situations where we've needed it. Furthermore, the documentation on Oracle GoldenGate is so good that we often do not need to contact support with issues as the fix is already documented and able to be run by us without needing to open a ticket.
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    Quest Software
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    We've had Oracle consultants come as well for training days to talk about new features, parts of Oracle GoldenGate we may not be using and things of that nature. The consultants they send are great as they're very knowledgeable about all things Oracle GoldenGate and great resources for any questions or concerns you may have with the product.
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    Quest Software
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    We used Oracle University for our Oracle Golden Gate Training and it was top notch. We were able to turn our whole DBA team to Oracle GoldenGate newbies to Oracle GoldenGate troubleshooting experts in a matter of a few days, while this obviously did not come cheap, the company felt that it was worth the investment.
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    Quest Software
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    If Oracle GoldenGate is new to your organization, expose as many DBAs as possible to it. Having your whole team fluent in it will overcome early operational hurdles and allow it to more quickly become an accepted and supported part of your supported platform for your team that will enable the business to use it to its fullest.
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    Quest Software
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We use Oracle Data Guard as a backup tool, but not for data replication. Data Guard is not suited for real-time data replication in our non-normalized reporting database nor for the database we are using for our upgrade project, as Data Guard is not able to transform data and is not able to synchronize data into different schemas, which is necessary for our project. Additionally, our project database is on Oracle 12g not 11i: I am not 100% sure Data Guard is able to replicate from 11i to 12g
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    Quest Software
    Although Toad and UltraEdit are both great products, from an SQL standpoint Toad is a much better editor and troubleshooter.
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    Have never had any issues with scaling Oracle GoldenGate itself, however Oracle GoldenGate Monitor does have scaling issues, but with Oracle GoldenGate now able to be monitored by Oracle Enterprise Manager, this is no longer an issue, in my opinion.
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    Quest Software
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • In earlier versions, DDL support was limited as well as the need of primary key constraints in the source tables. This made me create partitions, sub-partitions, truncatations and perform other operations upon they are performed in source systems and I need to discuss with source system administrators and need to convince them to let them create primary keys for replicated tables.
    • But both issues are solved now.
    • Installation is straightforward, easy.
    • Deployed everything within Oracle Data Integrator.
    • Developing 1000 of ODI interfaces for loading into Operational Data Store took not more than 100 man/days. But, adding them to Golden Gate is taking not more than 5 man/days.
    • Management Pack and VeriData are additional packs for your management and data verification needs.
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    Quest Software
    • It is the least common denominator - not particularly optimized for our environment or workflows.
    • Hangs or slowdowns add anywhere from 5% - 7% for projects utilizing large/complicated data setts. (This could be due to other IT-imposed constraints and not entirely due to TOAD.)
    • Trying to perform some operations requires reading documentation and experimenting in order to figure out the TOAD-specific approaches and commands.
    • It just works (when we understand it). Updates don't break things and things don't suddenly start behaving differently. Best of all, we don't mysteriously lose functionality.
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