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CA IDMS vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

CA IDMS
Ranking in Database Development and Management
29th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
Ranking in Database Development and Management
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (13th), Data Warehouse (8th), Message Queue (MQ) Software (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 VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 2.9%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user558606 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Sushma Polavarapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Create essential reporting scripts with simplicity but has some operational challenges
We mainly create functions and scripts required for reporting The product is not complex; I do not have to create stored procedures, functions, or views. It's just simple to use. There is general room for improvement. I have been using it for five years. I have faced stability issues, mainly…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. ​"
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too.​"
"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."
"The loading speed is very good."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is not complex; I do not have to create stored procedures, functions, or views."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
"The solution improved our site reliability."
"I like the high throughput of 20K messages/sec, and that it supports multiple protocols."
"A very good, open-source platform."
 

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."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness."
"Other tools besides RabbitMQ provide good TPS and HA."
"The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers."
"The availability could be better."
"It doesn't have any GUI-based monitoring tools."
"I would like to see the performance of the administration portal improved and additional messaging protocols."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do not hold back on asking questions about the maintenance and continued support of the product."
"On a scale of one to five, with five being the most competitive pricing, I would rate this solution as a four."
"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."
"It is an open-source product."
"The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."
"This is an open source solution."
"The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost."
"The pricing is okay."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Government
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
4%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
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It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.
 

Also Known As

IDMS
Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres
 

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Sample Customers

Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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