Equalum vs IBM App Connect comparison

Google and IBM are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Google is ranked #27, while IBM is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Google holds a 0.4% mindshare in CDI, compared to IBM’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Equalum

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

IBM App Connect and Equalum compete in the integration and data streaming market. Equalum seems to have the upper hand due to its no-code interfaces and ease of use that cater to large-scale data operations efficiently.

Features: IBM App Connect provides robust integration capabilities with minimal coding, offers extensive adapters for various applications including Salesforce and Ariba, and ensures security and scalability, making it ideal for complex environments. Equalum features no-code interfaces, CDC replication, and real-time data streaming, integrating with technologies like Kafka and Spark, making it powerful for data operations.

Room for Improvement: IBM App Connect needs enhancements in support response times, increasing connector availability, and simplifying its complex setup processes. Equalum requires improvements in vendor compatibility, enriching documentation, and enhancing UI functionality. Both products could improve their connectivity capabilities to support broader data source integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM App Connect offers flexible deployment on multiple platforms, though inconsistencies are noted in technical support and response times. Equalum supports both on-premises and cloud-based deployments and is praised for its straightforward deployment and customer service, although response times can occasionally be slow.

Pricing and ROI: IBM App Connect is considered expensive, with complex licensing impacting management costs, yet delivers value through operational efficiency when integrated with multiple IBM products. Equalum's pricing is simpler and seen as reasonable, offering clear cost management and development cycle reductions, leading to a favorable ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Equalum

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

27th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (59th), Data Replication (19th)

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Equalum is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM App Connect is 4.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Transforms data efficiently and navigates licensing challenges with ease

The transition between version 12 and version 13 presents some challenges. While version 12 had approximately 10 features, version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility. The learning curve for developers moving from version 12 to 13 could be smoother. When using new components, better context explanations would be beneficial. In version 13, accessing new features requires connecting through a web browser, which can be challenging to understand. The explanation of new features could be more user-friendly.

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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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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 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."

"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."

"Technical support is good."

"The transformation capabilities in IBM App Connect are particularly beneficial."

"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."

"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."

"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"Provides good security features."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Updates are constantly delayed."

"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."

"IBM App Connect should improve security features."

"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."

"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."

"Finding developers for the product is difficult since it is a niche solution. I know the OpenShift environment is running well for the microservice environment. We had some issues with the other environment we tried to implement. It can be easily implemented internally, but we have some problems in practice."

"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."

"The interface could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"The price could be better."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

22%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

Configuration time varies by implementation. For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward. However, companies requiring multiple configurations for ODBC, JDB...

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

I am a developer specializing in IBM App Connect. We have a customer interested in comparing ESB tools, such as webMethods, which was previously owned by Software AG company before IBM acquired the...

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Overview

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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Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

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