We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and Nutanix Database Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"It is a solid product."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"It has wizards that are very helpful in the installation, and it handles automation as well as virtualization once deployed."
"Overall, the solution is very good. It's easy to use and simple to handle many actions, such as VM cloning, testing, and prediction."
"This is a very useful solution for database management."
"The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective."
"The most valuable feature is its robust infrastructure management tools."
"We use the solution to save costs and simplify operations."
"There are a lot of options for working with the database."
"It saves operation time and day-to-day tasks."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"The initial setup was a little tedious and complex. If they could make the setup slightly more user-friendly, then that would definitely be beneficial. If they could give a clear indication of what ports are required across the business and multiple VLANs, then your prep work can be done beforehand and before you do the actual installation. Because the documentation that was provided was not 100 percent accurate, so we had to do a lot of custom firewall rules after we deployed Nutanix Era."
"The solution should provide more integration with more databases."
"If there were data integration services included with the platform then it would be interesting, and it would help us a lot."
"The downside of this solution is that it's more expensive than its competitors."
"The solution needs to improve compatibility with other back-ups and products."
"I would like to see the SQL compatibility enhanced."
"The solution could improve by providing more support for more vendors."
"The updating of the database engine is something that can be improved. For example, assume that we are using PostgreSQL out of the box, and it is version 10. If we want to migrate to version 11, 12, or 13, then it is not very easy to do that using Nutanix Era."
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CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while Nutanix Database Service is ranked 6th in Database Development and Management with 16 reviews. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Database Service is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Database Service writes "A single solution that provides you new deployments and monitoring as well as everything in one bucket". CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS, whereas Nutanix Database Service is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager, VMware Postgres, VMware Tanzu GemFire and EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager. See our CA Datacom vs. Nutanix Database Service report.
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