CA IDMS vs Oracle Coherence comparison

Broadcom and Oracle are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Broadcom is ranked #28, while Oracle is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Broadcom holds a 1.1% mindshare in DDM, compared to Oracle’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

CA IDMS

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

CA IDMS and Oracle Coherence serve in the database and in-memory data grid solutions. Oracle Coherence seems to have the upper hand with its scalability and performance for modern applications.

Features: CA IDMS specializes in data management features tailored for high-volume mainframe operations, enhancing transaction processing efficiency. It emphasizes robust transaction management, reliability, and scalability in mainframe environments. Oracle Coherence offers advanced caching and grid computing capabilities, facilitating optimal memory utilization and improved application responsiveness. It focuses on in-memory processing power, distributed processing capabilities, and scalability in handling dynamic data loads.

Room for Improvement: CA IDMS could enhance its integration with modern technologies and widen its platform support beyond mainframe environments. It might also benefit from improved scalability options and a more flexible deployment model. Oracle Coherence can enhance its support for legacy systems and provide more user-friendly interfaces. It may also improve its documentation and expand its language interoperability to cater to a broader range of applications.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CA IDMS benefits from a stable deployment model focused on mainframe integrations, supported by comprehensive customer service within its niche market. Oracle Coherence provides flexible deployment options across multiple platforms with focused support to aid adaptation in evolving tech environments, offering more flexibility in its deployment strategies.

Pricing and ROI: CA IDMS typically incurs higher initial setup costs due to its mainframe deployments, but it delivers substantial ROI through long-term reliability and minimized risk of system failures. Oracle Coherence requires lower initial investment and accelerates ROI due to its efficiency and scalability, making it a cost-effective choice for modern, dynamic environments. The pricing and ROI variance reflects the target environments, with CA IDMS emphasizing stability and Oracle Coherence focusing on growth potential.

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Categories and Ranking

CA IDMS

Ranking in Database Development and Management

28th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Coherence

Ranking in Database Development and Management

17th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

In-Memory Data Store Services (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of CA IDMS is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Coherence is 2.2%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management

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Application Development Manager at Aetna

We get network database performance. It supports our back office.

I don't have anything to add. I've heard about web services. We might be looking at a Java connection or web services in the future. It's serving our purpose right now. We're not looking for anything new. For what we do, it meets all our needs. We have to use DB2 when we need more relational constructs, expanded inquiry and reporting; so it's not perfect in that regards. We use it really for our transaction processing, not as much for reporting. For transaction processing, it's doing the job we need. To go into more in-depth, high-volume reporting, we offload a lot of the data to DB2.

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ShanmugaSundaram

Vice President - Database management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Technical support is okay, but it has issues with stability and performance

We have our own data center with a lot of servers running on the Linux platform This platform has issues with stability and performance. I have been using Oracle Coherence for only a couple of years. In total, I have about 30 years of experience in the Oracle environment. I began with Oracle…

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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 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."

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

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

"Technical support from Oracle is okay."

"Coherence is beneficial due to its multi-indexing to the same object and filtering based on data attributes within the object, followed by aggregation."

Cons

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

"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."

"This platform has issues with stability and performance."

"The initial setup is complex and time-consuming."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Government

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

42%

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

Government

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What needs improvement with Oracle Coherence?

The WebLogic Management is quite cumbersome. The initial setup is complex and time-consuming.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Coherence?

I utilize Coherence for data solutions in the financial industry. Its primary use case includes plain lookup, indexing, filtering, and aggregation.

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Coherence?

I recommend Coherence, as I don't have any product issues. The main concerns are high pricing and a complex initial setup. Overall, I would rate Coherence as an eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

IDMS

Coherence

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.

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Oracle Coherence is an in-memory data grid solution that enables organizations to predictably scale mission-critical applications by providing fast access to frequently used data. As data volumes and customer expectations increase, driven by the “internet of things”, social, mobile, cloud and always-connected devices, so does the need to handle more data in real-time, offload over-burdened shared data services and provide availability guarantees.

Oracle Coherence comes with a rich set of processing and event capabilities so applications can scale processing with increased data volumes. By automatically and dynamically partitioning data, Oracle Coherence ensures continuous data availability and transactional integrity, even in the event of a server or site failure.

Oracle Coherence provides organizations with a robust scale-out data abstraction layer that brokers the supply and demand of data between applications and data sources. This cost-effectively offloads shared data services such as databases, mainframes, and partner services.

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Sample Customers

Blue Hill Data Services Inc.

Industrial Bank of Korea, Hotelbeds, Canon Inc., Verizon, Securitas Direct Espa_a, S.A.U., CetelemEspa_aGrupo BNP Paribas, Telus

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