IBM App Connect vs Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.0. IBM holds a 3.6% mindshare in CDI, compared to Oracle’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

IBM App Connect and Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service are competitors in the data integration and replication category. While IBM App Connect is praised for its affordability and support, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is recognized for its advanced features that justify its cost.

Features: IBM App Connect provides integration capabilities with pre-built connectors, ensuring seamless connectivity across systems. It is user-friendly, making it suitable for basic integration needs. Additionally, IBM App Connect offers automation capabilities for complex integrations. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service boasts robust real-time data integration and advanced data replication features, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. It facilitates easy system backups and updates without downtime, making it superior for mission-critical scenarios.

Room for Improvement: IBM App Connect could enhance its capabilities for handling larger volumes of data and complex processing scenarios. More built-in error handling features would also improve the user experience. IBM App Connect may improve by expanding its automation capabilities. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service may benefit from simplifying its deployment process for users with less expertise. Increasing its flexibility for on-premises solutions could also be beneficial. Improving support for non-Oracle systems might expand its usability in mixed environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM App Connect offers a straightforward deployment model, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments with strong customer support. It is generally easier to deploy for businesses with limited IT resources. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service provides a flexible cloud-based deployment with sophisticated tools for real-time data movement, demanding more expertise for setup but delivering reliable performance post-deployment.

Pricing and ROI: IBM App Connect is competitively priced, appealing to enterprises with budget constraints and often delivering a quick ROI due to its ease of use. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service has a higher setup cost reflecting its advanced features, offering substantial ROI in large-scale environments where real-time data capabilities add considerable value.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Ser...

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 3.6%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM App Connect	3.6%
Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service	1.4%
Other	95.0%

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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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Tarek Diab

Advisor Business Analysis & Data Management at Saudi Telecom Company

Real-time integration and seamless data synchronization enhance user experience

The stability of Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is one of its most useful features, although its performance is not too steady. It excels with bidirectional data synchronization. It supports diverse databases and platforms. We link the ODS with numerous source systems, including Oracle, Tarek Data, and Microsoft, with no integration issues. The solution caters to enterprise needs, fitting any organizational requirement, apart from data security issues common to cloud solutions. The cloud data security challenge is notable, necessitating solutions such as private cloud offerings to allay security concerns.

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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

"Technical support is good."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

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

"Provides good security features."

"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."

"One of the most beneficial features is the ability to handle multiple communication technologies, like integrating Kafka flows, which is helpful as other teams heavily use it. Regarding error handling, I initially wrote most of the handling myself. While built-in features for error handling are built-in, it largely depends on the developer. We use a custom solution that catches all exceptions, logs them in a database, and replays them as needed. It has been effective for us for over twenty years."

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"It has an efficient design flow."

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"Oracle Database generally guarantees a good response for customer use cases."

"This has significantly eased the process of migration from on-premise to cloud. Instead of configuring everything from the ground up, the Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service has made it seamless to build and render databases in cloud."

"GoldenGate's best features are the desktop security features."

"It provides a good response for external microservices applications."

"The stability of Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is one of its most useful features, although its performance is not too steady; it excels with bidirectional data synchronization and supports diverse databases and platforms."

"GoldenGate can aggregate various data types from different sources."

"We are heavily involved with GitHub for managing repositories, automatic deployments, and inner source projects."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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Cons

"The platform is somewhat expensive and hard to predict in terms of cost."

"IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention."

"The interface could be better."

"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

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

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

"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."

"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."

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"Support could be improved. They lack knowledge."

"Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service lacks AI. If AI gets introduced in Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, it would be much easier to do analysis."

"Oracle is always adding new features. I can't think of anything that's urgent currently."

"The initial setup was a little complex, and we required support from Oracle to complete it."

"More technical documentation is needed, especially in terms of mapping and conversion of data, while integration would also be very helpful."

"With Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, we have usual cloud solution issues such as privacy and data security."

"I am not very happy with Oracle Support. Over the past four to five years, I have experienced many problems when opening support requests."

"Pricing is rather expensive. Oracle typically prices on the higher side, and there is scope for them to reconsider the price, especially since it is a cloud service."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."

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

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

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

"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."

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

"App Connect is not cheap."

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

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service?

I do not have an idea about the solution's cost, but given the ongoing use, it appears to be good for them.

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What needs improvement with Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service?

With Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, we have usual cloud solution issues such as privacy and data security. These issues especially concern clients needing a private cloud solution to meet regulat...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service?

We are using Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service for real-time data integration, as our audience is real-time. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is used for ODS operating data store in SSD. For the ODS, ...

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Overview

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

IBM

GoldenGate Cloud Service is a cloud based real-time data integration and replication service, which provides seamless data movement from various on-premises relational databases to databases in the cloud while maintaining data consistency and offering fault tolerance and resiliency.

Oracle

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

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