IBM App Connect vs Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service comparison

IBM App Connect vs. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service

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Categories and Ranking

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

Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Ser...

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

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 IBM App Connect is 4.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Emmanuel Catalano

DBA at Gruppo SCAI

Offers reliable data management and simple to use but requires more intuitive configuration

I am not very happy with Oracle Support. Over the past four to five years, I have experienced many problems when opening support requests. A lot of the time, the support asks the same questions repeatedly, which takes time. Usually, I solve my issue myself before they give me solutions. It seems like they do not really understand my problem, even if I translate what I want to say from Italian with tools like Google Translate. Sometimes it is very difficult to communicate with them. We have some Oracle support staff in Italy whom I can reach directly, which helps, but there seems to be a problem with the support requests. It is also an issue when different Oracle representatives handle my request at different times and ask me to explain the problem again despite it being written in the support request. This makes it very frustrating. Additionally, issues arise with product understanding. For example, in dedicated infrastructure, the Oracle staff handling the support request may not be familiar with the product or suggest solutions suitable for other infrastructures but not mine. Oracle Support should know the solutions that fit my infrastructure since they manage it, not me.

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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

"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."

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

"It has an efficient design flow."

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

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

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature is the security."

More IBM App Connect pros

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

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

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

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

"Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service is valued for its ability to replicate data in real-time, offering significant benefits from a data perspective."

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

"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 can aggregate various data types from different sources."

Cons

"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."

"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."

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

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

"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."

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

More IBM App Connect cons

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

"Support could be improved. They lack knowledge."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Over the past four to five years, I have experienced many problems when opening support requests."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."

"App Connect is not cheap."

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

"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 cost depends upon the consumer."

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

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

"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

Educational Organization

22%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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...

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...

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...

What do you like most about Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service?

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

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

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.

What needs improvement with Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service?

One area that could be improved is the configuration flexibility. There are a lot of restrictions on how it can be configured because it is being deployed in the cloud. More flexibility for develop...

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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.

FORTH, Capital One

IBM App Connect vs. Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service