Woodler SMT vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Woodler SMT
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
SQL Server Monitoring & Performance Tuning tool designed by in-the-field performance tuners for administrators, developers, and tuners Data-driven root cause analysis ideal for root cause analysis (RCA) Interpretation of collected data with advanced descriptions and sharing options. Offers a high-level overview and deep internal metrics allowing the resolution of the toughest challenges. Recommended to use it during the deep-dive tuning…N/A
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning. What can you monitor with DPA? Oracle Oracle Exadata Oracle EBS Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database Managed Instance MySQL DB2 SAP ASE Aurora MariaDB DPA monitors physical, virtual,…N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsThere are two options- partner license and tuning license, where there are minimum service length limits. For a tuning version there is 1 manday to be used as a free consultancy per month. The price of tunining license is approx. 840 USD (700 Euro)/month. The minimum service length is 3 month for Woodler tuning licence and 12 month for partner license. Partner license has the monitoring tool and other consultancy is done as an payable option. The price of partners license is 305 USD aprox. ( 250 eur)/month. One manday for free is included in the package. There is a discount for more servers: from 11 license to 20 there is unit price aprox. 240 USD (200 eur) /month and one manday free consultancy is included in the package. For more then 20 partners license the price is 180 USD (150 eur)/Month per license. In the price of more then 20 partners license there is 2 manday free consultancy included in the price.
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Community Pulse
Woodler SMTSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Considered Both Products
Woodler SMT
Chose Woodler SMT
Even if Solarwinds's solution is [a] highly competitive, worldwide known product while Woodler SMT was developed by [a] small local company, both provide very comparable output for DBAs. I did not make an experience with "living human" support from Solarwinds, but in my …
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

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Top Pros
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Features
Woodler SMTSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SQL Performance Monitoring
Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Woodler SMT
8.6
4 Ratings
3% above category average
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
-
Ratings
Performance dashboard8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Intelligent alerting7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Top SQL8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical trend data8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization support9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Woodler SMTSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
Redgate SQL Monitor
Redgate SQL Monitor
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Woodler SMTSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(4 ratings)
9.2
(113 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.6
(4 ratings)
Usability
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9.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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9.3
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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7.3
(2 ratings)
Configurability
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7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Woodler SMTSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
Woodler s.r.o.
Woodler SMT is intended to be [a] specialized SQL Server monitoring tool. Unlike other monitoring systems, Woodler SMT does not take care [of] networks, AD, and other stuff along [with] company infrastructures. As for me, at least, this makes the Woodler SMT very strong in its area of expertise. If anybody is looking for [professional,] specialized SQL performance monitoring, the Woodler SMT would be the best choice. For general monitoring, this tool rather will not help.
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SolarWinds
This is an easy 10 because I actually have recommended this product to multiple clients and colleagues! Any shop that writes its own SQL queries will benefit from the insight provided by SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, so they know which of their queries is causing a bottleneck. Small shops or databases with only a few tables likely will see far fewer opportunities for optimization.
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Pros
Woodler s.r.o.
  • It contains all the diagnostics information that you need for optimization of queries, deep analysis of SQL server state, and much more
  • Regular deployment of a new versions with minor fixes but mainly with the new features.
  • It helps to make operational decisions, how to improve the performance and also expansion of the whole environment.
  • Buying this also contains excellent service from the Woodler support.
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SolarWinds
  • Maintains historical SQL execution data, enabling forensic analysis
  • Has the ability to slice and dice the data so that you can drill down to the execution of a single SQL statement being executed by a stored procedure
  • Alerts to when the consumption pattern changes
  • Shows historical average run times against the current, illustrating problems when they arise
  • Provides tuning advice based on best practices
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Cons
Woodler s.r.o.
  • Sysadmin access to your system.
  • Consumes disk capacity on monitored server to store all the data.
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SolarWinds
  • Alerts seem to be lacking in DPA compared to competitor's tools. They can be setup but are not quite as easy or as helpful as some other tools I have used.
  • Grooming/pruning the repository database isn't very easy. We don't manage a lot of instances but our repo DB has grown pretty significantly.
  • At times when I am drilled-down to a chart, it can be difficult to navigate around from that point to another time range/query/metric.
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Likelihood to Renew
Woodler s.r.o.
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SolarWinds
We have relied on this product for a very long time and it continues to exceed expectations. The product is a vital part of our organization at this point, it would not be very ideal for us to abandon it. We use it almost every day and depend on its alerts for critical parts of our business
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Usability
Woodler s.r.o.
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SolarWinds
I don't want to think about managing clusters of SQL servers in the future without this tool. We have demoed other tools and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is the gold standard for usability and insight into what your servers are doing. The UI is a bit dated, but everything is laid out in a logical manner and drilling down into queries or timeslices is extremely intuitive.
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Support Rating
Woodler s.r.o.
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SolarWinds
I have had to use their support on a few occasions, for reasons that I am not clear about until recently I have always had problems upgrading the software (although the last 2 updates have gone without issue which I am very pleased to say). On those unfortunate occasions, the support has been brilliant with either excellently documented guides on how to resolve the issue by myself or have been hands-on with calls and screen sharing to remotely fix the issue. Every time the problem was sorted and more importantly, nothing was lost (apart from a bit of time). And as I stated above whatever the problem was that was causing my upgrade issues appears to have been resolved in the last 2 updates.
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Implementation Rating
Woodler s.r.o.
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SolarWinds
Follow the guidelines for the capacity of the servers. We found that the DPA databases were getting rather large and also that there are ways to reduce their size built into some of the options.
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Alternatives Considered
Woodler s.r.o.
We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues.
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SolarWinds
At the time, we found SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to be easier to setup and to have a richer feature set than Redgate SQL Monitor, plus, from what I remember, the DPA pricing worked better for us over the course of a year. We're very happy with all the features DPA has to offer.
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Return on Investment
Woodler s.r.o.
  • It saves the time of troubleshooting
  • It increases user's satisfaction with products relaying on SQL Server's performance
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SolarWinds
  • It has allowed us to progress as an organization with much less reliance on a direct DBA than would traditionally be required
  • Allowed us to be much more proactive in our performance monitoring and responding to issues that would affect users.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Screenshots

Screenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Alerts and reportsScreenshot of Application-centric view of DPAScreenshot of Blocking deadlock analysisScreenshot of Collaboration across teamsScreenshot of Intuitive performance monitoring