CA IDMS vs Oracle Berkeley DB comparison

The compared Broadcom and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #28 in DDM , and holds a 1.3% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #7 in EDS , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

CA IDMS

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle Berkeley DB

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66% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

CA IDMS

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (28th)

Oracle Berkeley DB

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded Database (7th), Non-Relational Databases (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

CA IDMS and Oracle Berkeley DB aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CA IDMS is designed for Database Development and Management and holds a mindshare of 1.3%, up 1.0% compared to last year.
Oracle Berkeley DB, on the other hand, focuses on Embedded Database, holds 5.4% mindshare, up 4.5% since last year.

Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CA IDMS	1.3%
Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials	4.5%
Spotlight	4.0%
Other	90.2%

Database Development and Management

Embedded Database Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Berkeley DB	5.4%
SQLite	20.4%
Firebird SQL	15.9%
Other	58.300000000000004%

Embedded Database

Featured Reviews

Alfredo Silva

ALiBS Solutions at ALiBS Solutions

Helps us to manage user profiles very quickly and in an assertive way

I would rate this solution 9 out of 10. I would advise that they should evaluate other possibilities because this is a very quickly changing environment and there are other possible providers that have good solutions. I would do some kind of test. I would test other possible solutions too and compare them.

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Emad Mokhatab

Solution & Software System Architect at Shaparak

Easy to integrate and manage the setup phase

One of the things that I want to see in Oracle Berkeley DB is a driver for reactive programming. I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into. Other tools have become more innovative in many areas. I know that Oracle has many responsibilities in maintaining the situation with the current projects and so on. I think it would be very cool if Oracle could make improvements to its projects, as it can help me with my current projects. One reason why I don't choose Oracle Berkeley DB is because we want to go for reactive programming, along with Project Reactor from Spring, but we don't have the official driver for it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is the community - a tightly knit group of experts who have been working on the product set for many years."

"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "

"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."

"Stability is perfect! It is a really stable platform; it has been around for many years, and we trust it implicitly."

"The most valuable feature is the performance of the database; it's very efficient at what it does, quite reliable, and provides us with a very stable platform that we've been running for many years."

"We've been able to fine tune it over the years to get really good performance out of it, and maintain some database network support."

"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."

"This product helped us to develop a performance-critical DB backend module in the healthcare domain."

"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."

"We always had predictability, and by using a custom-built data service layer with plugins, it provided us a lot of scalability, fast turnaround for our fast-moving business requirement and huge data."

"As a key/value store, Oracle BDB is simple to use, and it provides ACID transactions for companies that cannot afford eventual consistency."

"The product meets all the essential business requirements."

Cons

"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."

"We need to make it much easier to support and maintain, because the skills required are quite specialized and we're not going to have people in the future who've got the necessary experience and knowledge."

"I'd like to see some of the installation, maintenance, and support functions simplified so that some of our younger, newer members can take advantage of the product and maintain it to the same standard that the older members have in the past."

"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."

"We have to use DB2 when we need more relational constructs, expanded inquiry and reporting; so it's not perfect in that regards."

"Environment corruption is a common problem found when a DB environment is used by more than one process on a machine at a time."

"Memory usage becomes a problem when the number of entries stored within the key/value store are quite high (hundreds of millions)."

"The product's interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."

"I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into."

"There were some mid-term small releases that caused database crashes, but this was later fixed."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do not hold back on asking questions about the maintenance and continued support of the product."

"There is a need to pay for the licenses and features of the tool."

"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

University

Computer Software Company

University

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Educational Organization

10%

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Also Known As

IDMS

Berkeley DB

Overview

CA IDMS is a reliable, high-performance, web-enabled Database Management system (DBMS) for IBM z Systems that provides business value for hundreds of enterprises and government organizations. CA IDMS provides high-performance database management and transaction processing performance for existing and new workloads, helping you consolidate business functions on a central data repository, as needed.

Broadcom

Oracle Berkeley DB provides the best open source embeddable databases allowing developers the choice of SQL, Key/Value, XML/XQuery or Java Object storage for their data model. At its core is a fast, scalable, transactional database engine with proven reliability and availability. Berkeley DB comes three versions: Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition, and Berkeley DB XML.

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of high performance, self-contained databases provides developers with a fast, transactional database solution with a track record of reliability, unmatched scalability and five-nines (99.999%) or better availability. Oracle Berkeley DB is well suited to Independent Software Vendors, device and equipment manufacturers, and enterprises or software companies building solutions which need a data management component. The Oracle Berkeley DB family of products provides fast, local persistence with zero oversight administration.

Customers and end-users will experience an application that simply works, reliably manages data, scales under extreme load, and requires zero oversight in deployment. Your development team can focus on your application and be confident that Berkeley DB will manage your application’s data.

For more information on Oracle Berkeley DB, visit Oracle.com

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