Navicat Premium: Better than advertised, almost better than OEM
January 30, 2020
Navicat Premium: Better than advertised, almost better than OEM
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Navicat Premium
The Navicat monitor sub-application is being used to monitor various cloud databases and MySQL. OEM required too much patching and another software alternative was needed to accomplish monitoring heterogenous databases. Ease of connectivity was a requirement also, and Navicat monitoring being accessible via standard html met that requirement. Most features were identical to OEM (alert notification, performance monitoring, etc).
- Access via standard html
- Alert notification
- Remote deploy databases
- Clone databases
- Similar features to OEM provided very easy to use, out-of-the-box functionality.
- No large infrastructure changes were needed to deploy and install.
Pros: Mac OS, Linux, Windows OS support. Cloud db support for all major vendors. Standard HTML accessibility. Standard/Enterprise edition compatibility. Remote and performance monitoring, alert notification, online query analyzing.
Cons: No disaster recovery management, installation, deployment. No clone database support. Monitoring templates are missing so each configured "monitoring" item has to be addressed discretely.
Cons: No disaster recovery management, installation, deployment. No clone database support. Monitoring templates are missing so each configured "monitoring" item has to be addressed discretely.
Do you think Navicat delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Navicat's feature set?
Yes
Did Navicat live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Navicat go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Navicat again?
Yes