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AWS Database Migration Service vs Equalum [EOL] comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 15, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.6
Users saved 40%-60% with AWS Database Migration Service, achieving better ROI over legacy tools but limited time savings.
Sentiment score
6.9
Equalum EOL accelerates data delivery, reduces development needs, enhances integration speed, and offers cost-saving by streamlining processes.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.3
AWS Database Migration Service support varies in effectiveness, with mixed feedback on response times and expertise, suggesting improvement opportunities.
Sentiment score
8.2
Equalum's customer service is praised for responsiveness, technical expertise, multilingual support, and significant upgrades enhancing user experience.
I am happy with the technical support from AWS.
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
When working with AWS GovCloud, we often did not get an answer in time because AWS seemed more focused on the commercial side.
Owner at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
AWS Database Migration Service is scalable, but large datasets may cause performance lag, requiring manual adjustments for complex tasks.
Sentiment score
7.7
Equalum provides scalable data flow solutions with controllable environments, supporting both vertical and horizontal expansion for growing businesses.
Even if there was a failure, we could catch it and rerun it.
Software architect at Cognizant
While scalability is good, latency exists due to our business nature.
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
AWS's scalable nature involves a human approach, meaning it is not auto-scalable.
Lead Architect at Fracral
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
AWS Database Migration Service is generally stable, but users have mixed experiences with large data volumes and ongoing migrations.
Sentiment score
7.5
Equalum offers strong stability and performance, with rare network issues, while navigating initial phases presents minor challenges.
Minor version upgrades are handled by DMS automatically.
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Database Migration Service needs enhancements in compatibility, performance, support, user interface, flexibility, scalability, and documentation.
Equalum EOL requires improvements in notifications, connectors, documentation, UI, deployment, security, replication, and database integration.
DMS works within AWS ecosystem, but they also have to look for third party solutions. Now Snowflake is a bigger player, or Databricks.
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
Sometimes, those who implement the service face problems and resolve it, but I may not even know what problems they faced.
Owner at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

AWS Database Migration Service is affordable, but licensing and regional differences affect costs, offering good value overall.
Equalum's pricing is considered reasonable and competitive, focusing on CPU and connector additions, despite perceptions of expensiveness.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Database Migration Service is cost-effective, scalable, offers live replication, real-time sync, and integrates well, minimizing administrative tasks.
Equalum streamlines data flow between SQL Server and Oracle with real-time streaming, no-code interface, and intuitive monitoring features.
My main valuable features of AWS Database Migration Service include the ability to move data securely and continuously synchronize changes during the migration process, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud.
Analyst at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
The scalability option is another valuable feature because AWS provides its own compute behind it, so I can scale up and scale down at any given point.
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
This eliminates the typical low-level technical work like setting up the server and networking, which helps significantly.
Owner at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Database Migration Service
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (2nd)
Equalum [EOL]
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

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Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
Streamlines data migration across platforms with cost-effective and scalable solutions
We have the continuous data integration feature, but it does not work very well in our given ecosystem because we have huge data volume, and it reads from archive log rather than the redo sequence. That is where it lacks, so we are not able to do continuous streaming data injection. The ability to handle heterogeneous migrations for our organization is adequate. I do not see a major value add, or see it as a marquee feature. It is a good tool, but we do not have that sort of uses requirement. In my 10 plus years of experience, I do not see that kind of requirement where I have to replicate it in real time. I leverage AWS CloudWatch for addressing migration issues. The major challenges come across CDC. We have created latency filter and everything, but there is no way to control it. Due to the nature of our business, the transactions increase during month end and year end. My transactions are supposed to increase, my workloads on my core system increases, but my DMS is not able to keep up with them, even if I increase it to a higher side. Improvements could be made in AWS Database Migration Service. Because of that, I am moving out of DMS now to a STRIIM solution. DMS works within AWS ecosystem, but they also have to look for third party solutions. Now Snowflake is a bigger player, or Databricks. Something that could be possible as a connector, whether paid or free, but giving as a connector to that ecosystem as well.
reviewer1525674 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Frees staff to focus on data workflow and on what can be done with data, and away from the details of the technology
There are areas they can do better in, like most software companies that are still relatively young. They need to expand their capabilities in some of the targets, as well as source connectors, and native connectors for a number of large data sources and databases. That's a huge challenge for every company in this area, not just Equalum. If I had the wherewithal to create a tool that could allow for all that connectivity, it would be massive, out-of-the-box. There are all the updates every month. An open source changes constantly, so compatibility for these sources or targets is not easy. And a lot of targets are proprietary and they actually don't want you to connect with them in real time. They want to keep that connectivity for their own competitive tool. What happens is that a customer will say, "Okay, I've got Oracle, and I've got MariaDB, and I've got SQL Server over here, and I've got something else over there. And I want to aggregate that, and put it into Google Cloud Platform." Having connectors to all of those is extremely difficult, as is maintaining them. So there are major challenges to keeping connectivity to those data sources, especially at a CDC level, because you've got to maintain your connectors. And every change that's made with a new version that comes out means they've got to upgrade their version of the connector. It's a real challenge in the industry. But one good thing about Equalum is that they're up for the challenge. If there's a customer opportunity, they will develop and make sure that they update a connector to meet the needs of the customer. They'll also look at custom development of connectors, based on the customer opportunity. It's a work in progress. Everybody in the space is in the same boat. And it's not just ETL tools. It's everybody in the Big Data space. It's a challenge. The other area for improvement, for Equalum, is their documentation of the product. But that comes with being a certain size and having a marketing team of 30 or 40 people and growing as an organization. They're getting there and I believe they know what the deficiencies are. Maintaining and driving a channel business, like Equalum is doing, is really quite a different business model than the direct-sales model. It requires a tremendous amount of documentation, marketing information, and educational information. It's not easy.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What resources can you use to learn how to utilize AWS Database Migration Service?
As with all AWS products, you are given very useful documentation with AWS Database Migration Service. Before we started using this product, we went over it and we were able to learn the basics an...
Would you recommend AWS Database Migration Service as a cloud data integration tool?
My current company started using AWS Database Migration Service upon my recommendation, and I continue telling people how good of a product it is. However, users should keep in mind a few things. ...
Is AWS Database Migration Service an affordable solution?
Compared to similar solutions, AWS Database Migration Service falls somewhere in the middle price-wise, at least from my experience. This being said, it is not a very affordable solution, especial...
Why should I use Equalum instead of LogMiner?
You'd want to use the Equalium Oracle Binary Log Parser because it's just better than the LogMiner. Sure, LogMiner is made by Oracle and probably the team knows some insight to make it efficient th...
Is Equalum compatible with all databases?
I'm using Equalum's data replication software for Oracle because that's the one database it's designed for. While it may sound limiting, when you find out how many solutions it can provide for you ...
Can I use Equalum for free?
No, it's not free but you can benefit from a free trial, though. There's an option to try their platform for a limited amount of time, so that may be useful to help you decide if you want to contin...
 

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