We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 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 is a solid product."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer can help us identify issues we cannot see manually."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer helped us locate the performance issues quickly."
"Monitoring is most valuable, and being able to know that there is an issue or problem and I need to go look is also valuable. So, monitoring and learning are the most important features."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The platform solves and prevents delays in receiving answers from databases."
"In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network layer, database layer, or elsewhere."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support for older databases and the ability to manage them in a centralized dashboard."
"What I like most about SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is that it's a powerful solution that lets me advise customers about performance, and it also gives a lot of supporting information."
"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 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."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"The solution should add little details on the server so that an independent team could easily do the implementation."
"The areas where it currently lags are in reporting and dashboarding. The reports and dashboards are somewhat static, and we cannot create custom dashboards for specific customer needs."
"It is capable, but I don't believe it has the right value matrix. It also depends on the budget of the company."
"There is room for improvement with the pricing of the platform."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should include more details on how everything works."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should provide customization options allowing users to add different columns."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should be easy to implement and it should have more facilities to make it better."
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CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is ranked 4th in Database Development and Management with 11 reviews. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer writes "Powerful monitoring solution with good technical support". CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS, whereas SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is most compared with SQL Sentry, Quest Foglight for Databases, Quest Spotlight, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and Redgate SQL Toolbelt. See our CA Datacom vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer report.
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