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    Redgate Flyway

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARedgate Flyway extends DevOps practices to databases to speed up software delivery while keeping business-critical data safe. From version control to continuous delivery, Redgate Flyway helps enterprises build on application delivery processes to automate database development and deployments.

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    SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVividCortex, 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
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    Redgate FlywaySolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
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    Free
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    Redgate FlywaySolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
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    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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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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    User Ratings
    Redgate FlywaySolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Redgate FlywaySolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Redgate
    Database Migrations on Java-based solutions. It has one of the best integrations with it as a database migration tool, you can do it with the community edition (no pricing involved) and it works flawlessly with Maven and Gradle. It's not an expensive tool in order to use the next level of features and is worth the money. I would recommend reaching that edition level as the object mapping feature gets really handy. I would not recommend it for any Microsoft-based solution (.Net) as is not compatible at all based on my experience, this is a tool only worth it with Java applications.
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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
    Redgate
    • Manage DB migration patch scripts
    • Apply DB migration patch scripts
    • Test DB migration patch scripts
    • Setup new DB instances, including on local env
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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
    Redgate
    • Updating it causes problems, there have been unnecessary changes that wasted time
    • Requires knowledge & studying so it's used properly
    • Lots of options that might be difficult to understand for non technical people
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    SolarWinds
    • The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.
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    Usability
    Redgate
    It's very easy to install and use. Even someone very new to the software will have no trouble, plus the team reach out to help you and continue to offer you support throughout. Really simple interface, clean design, all you could really ask for in a tool that needs to do a job dependably
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    SolarWinds
    I would say it is a very good tool from overall perspective compared to what I have used till now, still I will give it like 9 just for the sake of the interface and the integration which they should be doing soon with the main module which is SAM , NPM etc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Redgate
    The problem with a cloud-based tool for migration services is the cloud dependency. You are restricted to use the tool along the Cloud provider. Flyway gives you the freedom to use it in any scenario as long as you are working with a compatible database engine. Even if you are working on-premise and you don't have plans to move to a cloud architecture. Or even for sandbox development scenarios where you are a developer playing around with some project ideas. And you don't have to pay anything as long as you need advanced features, and not less importantly, you are using an open-source tool.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds DPA gives you a very deep analysis and monitoring of the devices which these tools will not give you neither Datadog or ManageEngine. It even gives you job rate , db locks and all other parameters to monitor which we usually do manually by going in to the DB and not from the tools. It also creates a dashboard out of the same.
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    Return on Investment
    Redgate
    • I definitely think it do have positive impact to our company's database management.
    • We have 4 database environments and thus it is easy when we push the database to various environments.
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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

    Redgate Flyway Screenshots

    Screenshot of Flyway Enterprise – auto-generation of migration scriptsScreenshot of Flyway Enterprise - reportingScreenshot of Flyway Enterprise - drift detection

    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.