We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and VMware Tanzu GemFire 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."The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"It is a solid product."
"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."
"The solution improved our site reliability."
"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."
"The initial deployment was a little difficult."
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CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while VMware Tanzu GemFire is ranked 19th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while VMware Tanzu GemFire is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Tanzu GemFire writes "The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult". CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS, whereas VMware Tanzu GemFire is most compared with Nutanix Database Service and VMware Postgres. See our CA Datacom vs. VMware Tanzu GemFire report.
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