We performed a comparison between AWS Database Migration Service and JumpMind SymmetricDS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."I am very impressed by the scalability of AWS Database Migration Service."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Database Migration Service is it catches all the history changes, such as inset, observe, and delete. It tracks everything."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the one I use for report generation. The security risk is very low."
"We particularly like that this solution has the facility to integrate with all ETL tools."
"What I like about AWS Database Migration Service is that it's a good product that allows you to migrate terabytes of data. My team was able to migrate almost 16TB of data using AWS Database Migration Service. The solution works fine for my use case."
"For our simple requirement of migration, DMS is just a typical AWS RDS with an IPSec tunnel to Oracle. The most valuable features for us are the networking capabilities like VPCs and VPNs."
"If your infrastructure is already on Amazon, it simply makes the most sense to use a tool officially provided by them as an additional service, rather than having to rely on a third-party solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"The live duplication has a delay of two minutes, which can be an issue."
"If they had some sort of functionality where, at a specific point in time, if I want to start a new job, it should automatically pick up from where it has been left rather than having people worry about the exact job number and the timing."
"One area that AWS DMS can improve on is its conversion of data types. For example, in Oracle, you have a data type called RAW, but in PostgreSQL there is no such thing. Thus, AWS DMS doesn't know what type I want to use when migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and when performing the migration, AWS DMS changed the RAW data type to the byte data type, which isn't what I wanted."
"AWS Database Migration Service can become complex when testing. Other solutions, such as Microsoft Azure makes it easy to do. There are more steps to complete tasks in AWS Database Migration Service than in Microsoft Azure."
"The server has limits on how many can connect to the database."
"The product's performance could be a little bit better."
"The solution’s scalability and performance could be improved."
"As a solution, the better thing is if more platforms come with direct compatibility, like connecting to different data sources. The basic problem I faced the most was while transferring and reading data from Excel. So, one time, I found that all the components I had declared in my scripts were able to take it. And after some patching happens, it is not able to support that. Again, we need to update the version of Excel. So, it's not like a plug-in type place where you have done the solution and are confident that it will work. So, this is an area of improvement."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
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AWS Database Migration Service is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Integration with 27 reviews while JumpMind SymmetricDS is ranked 13th in Data Replication. AWS Database Migration Service is rated 7.8, while JumpMind SymmetricDS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AWS Database Migration Service writes "A cloud solution for live replication but has stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JumpMind SymmetricDS writes "Excellent change data capture utility for distributed multi site environment". AWS Database Migration Service is most compared with AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Fivetran and Matillion ETL, whereas JumpMind SymmetricDS is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, SSIS, Confluent, Azure Data Factory and FME.
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