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What is SharePlex?
SharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.
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What is SharePlex?
SharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.
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Shareplex has greatly simplified the data replication process, allowing users to create and manage replicated nodes effortlessly. This has resulted in increased productivity and saved time and effort for users. Shareplex has been particularly useful in creating development and test environments quickly by enabling data twinning across on-premises and cloud platforms during and after large migrations. Organizations have found that Shareplex is instrumental in solving the problem of database replication and transformation, ensuring accurate storage and maintenance of data. It also provides backup capabilities, facilitating disaster recovery and rolling patches with minimal downtime. Users have successfully utilized Shareplex for a range of use cases including database cloning, migration, replication, deployment, and cutover from older systems to newer ones. With its monitoring, data comparison, conflict resolution, and synchronization capabilities, Shareplex has proven to be a valuable tool for maintaining high availability across data centers and real-time replication. Additionally, Shareplex's user-friendly features and collaboration capabilities have made it convenient for training employees effectively. Overall, Shareplex offers users a flexible solution for data migration, accuracy, conflict resolution, and real-time replication.
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Resourceful, Standard, and Simplistic Database Solution.
SharePlex is our outstanding data replicating solution, in terms of getting value for data, and ensuring that the database among other procedures runs out smoothly and security is well maintained. Besides, SharePlex has ensured there is the accuracy of data, through the inbuilt monitor, a simplistic conflict resolving procedure, and high data synchronizing features. SharePlex is highly flexible, fosters data migration, and improves on dealing with different data cases. Finally, SharePlex has real-time replication, a feature that is authentic and digitized.
- Data migration with flexibility and efficiency has been supported by SharePlex.
- SharePlex has simplistic ways of deployment and high replication capacity.
- The analytical services from SharePlex are scalable and efficient.
- Documentations from SharePlex are outdated and a bit weak.
- The monitoring demands from SharePlex are handful and stressful.
- Data syncing from SharePlex fails sometime.
- Data migration and synchronization are elaborate features that SharePlex provides.
- Credible database analysis and security, more so for the complex and meaningful databases.
- Finally, SharePlex has multiple support systems, where flexibility has been established.
- Data migration allows the company to make solid business changes, more so on new business plans.
- Further, system flexibility supports multiple business plans, hence, efficient and reliable.
- Finally, real-time decisions are arrived at using SharePlex, a procedure that ensures there is transparency in the entire operations.
SharePlex support is an award-winning team, which is available for 24 hours, and any time they have solutions with perfect expertise. Besides, SharePlex has supported data migration, with multiple reporting features that ensure there are comprehensive database evaluations. The simplicity of SharePlex installation also gives it a higher mark, is very efficient, and allows companies to understand it easily.
We've used SharePlex in two capacities. Its primary use is to provide heterogenous replication of production data into auxiliary systems (data marts, data lakes, BI, analytics). That has been an ongoing use for several years. We initially used it for Oracle -> Oracle replication only but have since extended its reach to utilize newer features that allow replication to SQL Server and JSON targets.
Our secondary use of Shareplex was to facilitate a major, complex database migration. It enabled us to migrate to new servers, new storage, update the OS, upgrade the database version, and apply critical patches with little (literally a few seconds) of downtime. We were able to run the old and new systems side by side and compare performance prior to the migration. It also allowed us to provide fail-back capability in the event of an issue, without data loss.
Our secondary use of Shareplex was to facilitate a major, complex database migration. It enabled us to migrate to new servers, new storage, update the OS, upgrade the database version, and apply critical patches with little (literally a few seconds) of downtime. We were able to run the old and new systems side by side and compare performance prior to the migration. It also allowed us to provide fail-back capability in the event of an issue, without data loss.
- Speed. We see little to no delay in replication streams between source and target databases.
- Tuning and options: There are a myriad of options available for tuning and customizing replication streams.
- Support: I've been consistently pleased with the support we've received from Quest. They're prompt and knowledgable and solve issues quickly and without drama.
- Documentation: There are some areas where the documentation is weak or dated. In particular, running SharePlex on RAC is a more involved process than the implementation guides would have you believe. When reaching out for assistance, the answer from Dell (a few years ago) was to engage their consulting team.
- Built in scripts/agents: SharePlex comes with a handful of monitoring and management scripts that can be run as cron jobs. Unfortunately, these scripts are primitive and rigid, requiring the user to hard-code values into the script body and limiting their usefulness when you're running multiple replication streams. Some of the methods and dependencies are heavy. We ended up writing custom scripts that do what we need but it would be helpful if there were greater functionality and flexibility out of the box.
- Compared to other tools, there is not as wide (or at least as active) a user presence. If you're having difficulties you may have to engage a consultant since it's less likely that you'll find an answer in a forum or blog post.
- SharePlex allowed us to relieve the load on our production databases by migrating batch and analytic processes to dedicated resources.
- SharePlex performed admirably during a migration and upgrade of our production databases, allowing us to accomplish ambitious goals without endangering availability of critical systems.
- Quest is regularly adding value to the product with enhancements and new features.
SharePlex was a clear winner in comparison to its competitors. It beats GoldenGate on price, providing equivalent features and performance at a fraction of the price and without the need to license costly Oracle features at the database level. DB Visit was a strong contender for us as well and it is an excellent product I would also recommend, but it did not have quite enough of a user and community presence and penetration for our management to feel comfortable with.
Shareplex is used to replicate data of internet access logs and redirect logs from the point of entry (transaction) to the very end of the back office (data warehouse) for business analytics. It provides data transfer pipelines that move and combine data from geographically dispersed sources to common targets, setting the foundation for a centralized and robust ETL process.
- SharePlex is highly configurable and versatile. It can handle virtually any kind of data replication needs.
- SharePlex is very robust. Its message queuing mechanism provides fast data transfer from the source to the target.
- SharePlex software is very stable and mature, and it is highly scalable and reliable.
- SharePlex support is exceptionally good. We are very satisfied with its support engineers.
- SharePlex could have provided more detailed documentation and examples for its "qview" utility. It is the tool of choice in many cases when we encounter tough issues.
- Faster data ETL process, which in turn speeds up business analysis and decision making.
- Fault-tolerance: when some replicated databases go down, others can stay up with the same data replicated by SharePlex.
- Higher capacity when business ramps up.
SharePlex is more robust than GoldenGate when it comes to replicating the particular transactions in our environment. GoldenGate has the advantage of supporting hetrogeneous databases, but it does not apply to us since we use a single database platform in this setting. In addition, the cost of software licensing of GoldenGate was higher than that of SharePlex at the time we evaluated.
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