Foglight for Databases vs SharePlex comparison

The compared Foglight for Databases and SharePlex solutions aren't in the same category. Foglight for Databases is ranked #2 in DDM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 3.9% mindshare in the category. SharePlex is ranked #49 in DI , and holds a 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Foglight for Databases users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SharePlex users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Quest SharePlex and Quest Foglight for Databases offer complementary solutions within the database management sector. SharePlex leads in cost-effectiveness and customer support, while Foglight provides a broader feature set for database performance optimization.

Features: SharePlex offers high performance in database replication, emphasizing data integrity and reliability in read/write processes. Its real-time data integration and PEP allow for efficient handling of multiple transactions and targets. Foglight provides a single pane of glass for comprehensive monitoring across various database platforms. It enables advanced diagnostics with SQL PI feature, real-time activity screens, and the adaptive baseline, which aids in detailed performance analysis.

Room for Improvement: SharePlex could enhance its filtering capabilities and simplify troubleshooting procedures even further. Improving synchronization and data backup processes could also provide added value. Foglight can work on improving its user interface and reducing the complexity of monitoring setup. Further optimization of resource utilization and integration with more database platforms could be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SharePlex offers a simpler deployment process with dedicated support, which is ideal for organizations looking for straightforward setup. Although Foglight's deployment is more involved due to its comprehensive feature set, it compensates with excellent customer service that aids in thorough configuration and feature utilization.

Pricing and ROI: SharePlex boasts a competitive price point, providing solid ROI focused on its replication capabilities. Conversely, Foglight has a higher initial cost but offers justified ROI through its extensive features and enhanced database performance management. It provides significant returns through its broader functionalities, potentially improving overall database operational efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Foglight for Databases

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (2nd)

SharePlex

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (49th)

Mindshare comparison

Foglight for Databases and SharePlex aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Foglight for Databases is designed for Database Development and Management and holds a mindshare of 3.9%, down 8.3% compared to last year.
SharePlex, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.

Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Foglight for Databases	3.9%
Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials	4.5%
Spotlight	4.0%
Other	87.6%

Database Development and Management

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SharePlex	0.9%
SSIS	3.6%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.6%
Other	91.9%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Vijay Ram

Technical Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Centralized monitoring has simplified multi-database oversight and improved query analysis

Foglight for Databases is very useful; however, the negative side we face is that customer care support is not frequent. If any issues related to Foglight arise, we cannot reach customer care support as soon as possible. It takes much longer compared to other third-party tools, and that is a major issue we are facing with Foglight for Databases. Foglight for Databases is good for monitoring, and we can fetch problematic issues and queries. However, the only main drawback is the customer care support. It is available only during the general shift, so if any issue occurs after 6:00 p.m. or before 9:00 a.m., there is usually no one to handle it. I think there are only two or three people handling customer care for Foglight for Databases.

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Kristopher Wells

Oracle DBA at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially

I would rate SharePlex's high availability, and disaster recovery features highly. It works as advertised in terms of rapid fill-over and switch-over opportunities. It reduces the migration time for a multi-terabyte database to an hour or less because it performs real-time replication. SharePlex reduces downtime and migration time exponentially. Something that could take 12 to 24 hours is cut down to one to two hours. By the time you start to migrate, the only remaining replication is a slight difference in data from the point when SharePlex has shut down, and the application has to also switch over to the new database. It allowed the company to replicate data more transparently. Some of the business executives probably don't even know it's there. It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems. It provides what is needed. There's little concern about whether or not it functions. It's allowed the company to achieve its objectives with its clients, reducing and minimizing downtime for substantial migrations and upgrades. It can reduce hardware and storage costs, but my company doesn't utilize it with high-availability architecture.

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Pros

"We can visualize all the different types of DB servers that we are monitoring in a single pane of glass. It uses a 360-degree overview of the database, for each of those databases that we are monitoring. That includes what kind of resource utilization is happening and what kind of DB parameters are getting monitored, as well as the different types of DB parameters that are being offered for each database type."

"Foglight definitely saves us time when it comes to root cause analysis."

"Foglight's Change Tracking capabilities are another huge feature. It is wonderful to be able to do that. People don't realize the amount of information that Foglight gathers from a given server or instance. It gets down to the version of SQL, the disk array, everything that's there. Any change that's made, any upgrade to SQL, shows up on the dashboard almost immediately. You don't know how much time you save just having a tool in your back pocket that does that for you."

"The profiler allows us to look at the profiles of the database queries that are being run over time. It allows us to go back to our customers and say that these are some of the queries causing them some headaches. It gives us the opportunity to provide suggestions on how to improve their experience."

"Foglight has the effect of improving our overall productivity, reducing downtime, and increasing profits."

"Foglight offers a lot of out-of-the-box, database-related metrics, which the DB teams here are looking for."

"Its reporting capabilities are immense."

"Foglight for Databases is the best tool for monitoring all aspects such as database, backup information, storage information, and operating system side."

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"The core replication and its performance, which is by far the fastest, along with the way it handles replication to multiple targets with basic filtering and from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."

"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."

"Try it out in your production and you won't be disappointed."

"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."

"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."

"The synchronization, data backup, and data transfer are all valuable features of the solution."

"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."

"It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems."

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Cons

"Foglight for Databases is very useful; however, the negative side we face is that customer care support is not frequent."

"The monitoring capabilities for Postgres should be at par with SQL Server. This is the area where we push back on our Quest representative. We want more insights into Postgres."

"Quest must release a Spanish version. That's critical because not everyone speaks English in Latin America. It's an excellent product, so it's super important that they offer the application and customer service in Spanish."

"One thing that I would like, and it's probably something that I could set up internally, is something other than a dashboard which I have to look at to know that a server is down. I'd like bells and whistles to go off... If I look at the dashboard I know there's a server down. But if I'm not looking at it, if I'm looking at some other problem, I want to know about it. You can do that, you can use SMSs and alerts to your phone, and I could set it up to handle that, but it would be nice if, out-of-the-box, Foglight did that."

"With the latest version, we have had many crashes, sometimes it stops working entirely, and it can take days to restart the service."

"The data model needs improvement when it comes to creating custom reports."

"When we decided to go with Foglight, a lot of people stopped using the diagnostics part because it was very intimidating... They still won't use it because they feel it's too intimidating. They will open something up and not know what to do. It's not very user-friendly. You have to click on a lot of stuff to find the information."

"The version that I'm using is not the latest version, so there might have been some improvement, but the OS monitoring is a bit lacking, and the high-availability option is a bit complicated to set up and it doesn't work all the time."

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"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."

"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."

"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."

"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."

"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."

"The reporting features need improvement."

"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication."

"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to the other tools on the market, Foglight is okay in terms of pricing and licensing."

"The price of Foglight could be a little more competitive in Chile, and it should be lowered for long-time customers— at least by 20 percent. Sometimes the price is a limitation. We have seven instances and nearly 5 million users. If Quest Foglight could reduce its prices for the clients that have been with it for a long time, we would be able to have more instances."

"Pricing is very reasonable. We were able to construct a pretty easy contract with Quest, who were very easy to work with and very amenable to what we are trying to do. It worked out well for us."

"This is like the "Cadillac" of performance monitoring software. It's not cheap... I am currently with a company that I was able to convince that the product is worth the cost."

"The price is worth it, if you have the time to go through the information."

"It is cost-effective. With our EA, it is really based on the scale of our database environment. We found the Quest team to be reasonable and flexible when it comes to pricing and scaling of licenses."

"It is not as expensive as Oracle GoldenGate and has worked really well within our budgets."

"It's really good value for the money. There are some things they could improve on, but in terms of the pricing, features, and support, as a holistic package, we are not thinking of anything else at this point in time."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Foglight for Databases?

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What needs improvement with Quest Foglight for Databases?

An improvement was observed in Foglight for Databases regarding the automatic closure of alerts or incidents once the issue is resolved. Previously, incidents were not automatically closed, but thi...

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Overview

Foglight for Databases offers comprehensive monitoring with real-time activity screens and adaptive baselines. It provides a 360-degree overview and efficient UI, requiring no custom scripts, aiding in proactive issue identification and resolution before impacting end users.

Foglight for Databases is a robust tool for monitoring across multiple platforms, including SQL and Oracle. It provides features like the "Morning Coffee" dashboard and SQL Performance Investigator, enabling effective workload analysis and historical investigation. Despite some challenges with sluggish performance on large data volumes and excessive non-critical alerts, it remains a preferred choice for its ability to support proactive management and resource planning. Users appreciate its centralized view of extensive database systems, enabling swift detection and resolution of issues in real-time.

What are the key features?

Comprehensive Monitoring: Provides cross-platform real-time monitoring, ensuring effective database management.
Adaptive Baselines: Adjusts to various workloads, enhancing monitoring accuracy.
SQL Performance Investigator: Offers detailed workload analysis without server impact.
Proactive Alerts: Delivers timely notifications, aiding in immediate issue resolution.
Efficient UI: Streamlines user interaction, minimizing the need for custom scripts.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Time Saving: Reduces time in root cause analysis, enhancing productivity.
Proactive Management: Detects issues before they affect end users, minimizing downtime.
Resource Planning: Aids in effective allocation planning for enterprise and cloud platforms.

Foglight is extensively implemented in industries managing extensive database systems, handling numerous servers to ensure availability and performance. It assists businesses in resolving blocking and locking deadlocks, crucial for maintaining smooth operations in production and development environments.

Quest Software

SharePlex delivers robust database replication and migration capabilities, emphasizing performance, synchronization, and data integrity management. Supporting high availability and real-time data syncing, it serves organizations handling vast transaction volumes, especially in IoT data processing.

SharePlex offers reliable data transfer and efficient multi-target replication. Its features like Compare and Repair utilities assist in maintaining data consistency. With PEP fostering scalability for large transactions, it caters to businesses aiming to cut down migration windows and minimize outages. Users employ SharePlex in real-time syncing and failover scenarios across data centers, crucial for handling extensive transaction data during migrations or upgrades.

What are SharePlex's key features?

Core Replication: Ensures reliable data synchronization across multiple targets.
Data Integrity Management: Maintains accuracy during reading and writing processes.
Compare and Repair Utilities: Facilitate data consistency checks and fixes.
PEP: Enhances performance for large transaction volumes.

Why consider SharePlex for your database needs?

Scalability: Supports large-scale transactions with efficiency.
Minimized Downtime: Provides continuous data availability during operations.
Business Continuity: Enables seamless failover and data center transitions.
Real-time Syncing: Supports time-sensitive data processing requirements.

Organizations in sectors like finance and telecommunications implement SharePlex to maintain uninterrupted operations and ensure quick recovery times. By facilitating database migrations to cloud platforms like AWS, they achieve reduced downtime and enhanced operational efficiency, catering to the rigorous demands of data-driven industries.

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