Dell RecoverPoint vs Equalum comparison

Dell Technologies and Google are both solutions in the Data Replication category. Dell Technologies is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Google is ranked #19. Dell Technologies holds a 2.3% mindshare in DR, compared to Google’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Google users who would recommend it.

Dell RecoverPoint

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Dell RecoverPoint and Equalum are competitors in the data protection and integration sector. Equalum appears to have an advantage due to its user-friendly interface and real-time data capabilities.

Features: Dell RecoverPoint offers remote and continuous data protection, block-level replication, and point-in-time recovery, with seamless VMware integration, low RPO, and automatic failover. Equalum delivers CDC replication, real-time data streaming, and batch ETL, featuring a no-code UI and micro-batching. Its integration with Kafka and Spark provides an efficient data migration solution.

Room for Improvement: Dell RecoverPoint struggles with high storage consumption by journals, lack of cascaded replication, and limited support for certain storage systems. Users have reported increased costs and compatibility issues with new VMware versions. Equalum needs to enhance its connector expansion, improve documentation, and refine deployment processes. Its user interface could become more intuitive and functional to meet complex user needs better.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell RecoverPoint is typically implemented in on-premises setups, with varied customer support experiences ranging from highly efficient to lacking in urgency. Equalum offers flexible deployment across on-premises, public, and hybrid clouds, with generally positive feedback on their supportive customer service, although they face the common challenge of scaling support capabilities.

Pricing and ROI: Dell RecoverPoint is considered a considerable investment with complex licensing models, often bundled with storage solutions, yielding up to 80% ROI for some users. Equalum is seen as costly compared to local competitors but affordable in the global ETL market. Its component-based pricing is noted for providing cost-effective time savings. Both products deliver significant returns, but perceptions of their pricing vary widely based on specific business needs and industry standards.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint

Ranking in Data Replication

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Equalum

Ranking in Data Replication

19th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (59th), Cloud Data Integration (27th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Replication category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint is 2.3%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Equalum is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Faisal_Zia

Team Lead of Senior Directors at Net-International

Continuous data protection guarantees data safety during outages and disasters

Based on my experience, I do recommend Dell RecoverPoint to other businesses. The environment requiring Dell RecoverPoint, such as banks or telcos where data equals money, cannot afford to lose data. The overall solution rating is eight, considering the competition from one or two more OEMs giving a tough time to Dell RecoverPoint.

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Joel Buck

Director of Enterprise Architecture at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

There is no better product for CDC and streaming on Kafka

The Equalum user interface is extremely easy to use. I would rank it really highly on user-friendliness. The only issue with the user interface is it doesn't supply everything that you need for somebody who has to work with Equalum. For example, when you get deep into development, there are many areas where you have to go to the command line to do things and the Equalum user interface does not have that functionality. The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy. If you have multiple projects, all working in one Equalum environment, separating out their work is something that you have to design into your implementation, as opposed to baked into the product.

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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 technical support for Dell RecoverPoint is excellent."

"RecoverPoint's most valuable feature is the automatic failover."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"The solution is now Flash-based, which is better. they moved away from Java."

"Dell RecoverPoint offers cost savings in the long term."

"The most valuable features include the ease of defining contingency groups and the drag-and-drop functionality, which speeds up our application processes."

"The product does block-level replication very well."

"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."

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"Equalum is real-time. If you are moving from an overnight process to a real-time process, there is always a difference in what reports and analytics show compared to what our operational system shows. Some of our organizations, especially finance, don't want those differences to be shown. Therefore, going to a real-time environment makes the data in one place match the data in another place. Data accuracy is almost instantaneous with this tool."

"It's a really powerful platform in terms of the combination of technologies they've developed and integrated together, out-of-the-box. The combination of Kafka and Spark is, we believe, quite unique, combined with CDC capabilities. And then, of course, there are the performance aspects. As an overall package, it's a very powerful data integration, migration, and replication tool."

"I found two features in Equalum that I consider the most valuable. One is that Equalum is a no-code tool. You can do your activities on its graphical interface, which doesn't require complex knowledge of extracting, changing, or loading data. Another feature of Equalum that I like the most is that it monitors the data transfers and tells you if there's any issue so that you can quickly check and correct it. Equalum also tells you where the problem lies, for example, if it's a hardware or communication issue."

"The main impact for Oracle LogMiner is the performance. Performance is drastically reduced if you use the solution’s Oracle Binary Log Parser. So, if we have 60 million records, initially it used to take a minute. Now, it takes a second to do synchronization from the source and target tables."

"Equalum provides a single platform for core architectural use cases, including CDC replication, streaming ETL, and batch ETL. That is important to our clients because there is no other single-focus product that covers these areas in that much detail, and with this many features on the platform. The fact that they are single-minded and focused on CDC and ETL makes this such a rich solution. Other solutions cover these things a little bit in their multi-function products, but they don't go as deep."

"Equalum has resulted in system performance improvements in our organization. Now, I am ingressing data off of multiple S3 sources, doing data processing, and formatting a schema. This would usually take me a couple of days, but now it takes me hours."

"It's got it all, from end-to-end. It's the glue. There are a lot of other products out there, good products, but there's always a little bit of something missing from the other products. Equalum did its research well and understood the requirements of large enterprise and governments in terms of one tool to rule them all, from a data migration integration perspective."

"All our architectural use cases are on a single platform, not multiple platforms. You don't have to dump into different modules because it is the same module everywhere."

Cons

"Dell RecoverPoint is considered an older technology and is not recommended for new deployments by Dell EMC. It requires double the storage capacity for source and target storage areas, which creates a heavy burden on storage resources."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"I am waiting for block replication with VirtualBox."

"RecoverPoint is designed to integrate seamlessly with Dell EMC storage. If you don't have Dell EMC storage, you can't use it with other brands like IBM or HP."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."

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"The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy."

"There is not enough proven integration with other vendors. That is what needs to be worked on. Equalum hasn't tested anything between vendors, which worries our clients. We need more proven vendor integration. It is an expensive product and it needs to support a multi-vendor approach."

"I should be able to see only my project versus somebody else's garbage. That is something that would be good in future. Right now, the security is by tenants, but I would like to have it by project, e.g., this project has this source and flows in these streams, and I have access to this on this site."

"If you need to use the basic features of Equalum, for example, you don't even need data integration, then many competitors in the market can give you basic features. For instance, if you need batch ETL, you can pick among solutions in the market that have been around longer than Equalum. What needs improvement in Equalum is replication, as it could be faster. Equalum also needs better integration with specific databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server."

"They need to expand their capabilities in some of the targets, as well as source connectors, and native connectors for a number of large data sources and databases. That's a huge challenge for every company in this area, not just Equalum."

"Their UI could use some work. Also, they could make it just a little faster to get around their user interface. It could be a bit more intuitive with things like keyboard shortcuts."

"Right now, they have a good notification system, but it is in bulk. For example, if I have five projects running and I put a notification, the notification comes back to me for all five projects. I would like the notification to come back only for one project."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is fairly priced."

"It is considered quite costly."

"The price is moderate."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"As soon as you have more than six users, Equalum is lower in cost [than Talend] and if the group gets bigger, it's quite a big delta. If more users want to use it, you don't end up with an increase in licensing costs, so that makes it very easy. And if you need more licenses or more sources, it's a very simple upgrade methodology."

"Equalum licensing costs vary, but I won't be able to give information on its fees."

"They have a very simple approach to licensing. They don't get tied up with different types of connectivity to different databases. If you need more connectors or if you need more CPU, you just add on. It's component-based pricing."

"Equalum was reasonably priced. It is not like those million dollar tools, such as Informatica."

"Equalum is rather expensive compared to its competitors. So, you have to make up that cost in time savings, and we usually do that. If we are saving money, it is because we are reducing our development time."

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Computer Software Company

30%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Healthcare Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell EMC RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication?

The image backup feature is great. For example, if you set the journal to take a backup every ten minutes, it will create a snapshot or pointer every ten minutes for as long as you need.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication?

Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication?

The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions. The version designed for VMware, RecoverPoint for VMs, simpl...

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Why should I use Equalum instead of LogMiner?

You'd want to use the Equalium Oracle Binary Log Parser because it's just better than the LogMiner. Sure, LogMiner is made by Oracle and probably the team knows some insight to make it efficient th...

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Is Equalum compatible with all databases?

I'm using Equalum's data replication software for Oracle because that's the one database it's designed for. While it may sound limiting, when you find out how many solutions it can provide for you ...

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Can I use Equalum for free?

No, it's not free but you can benefit from a free trial, though. There's an option to try their platform for a limited amount of time, so that may be useful to help you decide if you want to contin...

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Overview

Dell RecoverPoint provides continuous data protection with multiple recovery points to restore applications instantly to a specific point in time. It is used to protect applications with bidirectional synchronous and asynchronous replication and digital video recorder (DVR)-like recovery in physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures.

Dell Technologies

Equalum is a fully-managed, end-to-end data integration and real-time data streaming platform, powered by industry-leading change data capture (CDC) tech and modern data transformation capabilities (streaming ETL and ELT). Equalum's enterprise-grade platform features intuitive UI allowing you to build robust, real-time data pipelines in minutes.

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