IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs Oracle GoldenGate comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.7, while Oracle is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.1. IBM holds a 1.3% mindshare in DI, compared to Oracle’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Oracle GoldenGate and IBM Cloud Pak for Data are competitors in the data management and replication market. Oracle GoldenGate appears to have the upper hand in real-time data replication effectiveness, while IBM Cloud Pak for Data provides strong features in data virtualization and AI capabilities.

Features: Oracle GoldenGate provides seamless real-time data replication with robust change data capture, supporting a variety of heterogeneous databases. It is praised for its stability and scalability in various environments. On the other hand, IBM Cloud Pak for Data excels in data virtualization and offers comprehensive reporting features. It leverages Watson Studio and Machine Learning for advanced data processing and is designed for multi-cloud containerization.

Room for Improvement: Oracle GoldenGate faces setup challenges, including high supplemental logging storage needs and complex DDL replication, making it costly and demanding skilled users. Oracle’s support and documentation should be improved. IBM Cloud Pak for Data could simplify initial infrastructure requirements and increase connector support, with enhancements needed in AI lifecycle management and UI responsiveness for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle GoldenGate supports diverse environments, including hybrid clouds, though it encounters complexity in support interactions. IBM Cloud Pak for Data excels in public and hybrid cloud deployment with effective direct support, mainly experiencing challenges with support escalation processes in Oracle's technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle GoldenGate's pricing is perceived as high due to core-based licensing but offers a strong ROI when effectively used. IBM Cloud Pak for Data is costly for smaller organizations but remains competitive compared to technologies like Informatica, making it appealing to larger enterprises.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Ranking in Data Integration

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (3rd)

Oracle GoldenGate

Ranking in Data Integration

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM Cloud Pak for Data is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate is 1.8%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle GoldenGate	1.8%
IBM Cloud Pak for Data	1.3%
Other	96.9%

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Michelle Leslie

Data asset management engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Starts strong with data management capabilities but needs a demo database

What I would love to see is an end-to-end, almost a training demo database of some sort, where one of the biggest problems with data management is demonstrated. There are so many components to data management, and more often than not, people understand one thing really well. They may understand DataStage and how to move data around, but they do not see the impact of moving data incorrectly. They also do not see the impact of everyone understanding a piece of data in the same way. I would love Cloud Pak to come with a demo database that illustrates the different components of data management in a logical way, so I can see the whole picture instead of just the area I'm specializing in. It would be great if Cloud Pak, from a data modeling point of view, allowed us to import our PDMs, for example. It would be ideal to import and create business terms in Cloud Pak. The PEA would be great to create the technical data. The association between the business and the technical metadata could then be automated by pulling it through from your ACE models. The data modeling component is available in Cloud Pak. Additionally, when it comes to Cloud Pak, even though it has the NextGen DataStage built into it, there is Cloud Pak for data integration as well. Currently, I do not think we have a full enough understanding of how CP4D and CP4I can enhance each other.

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EmmanuelCatalano

DBA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Real-time data streaming has simplified transformations and kept enterprise databases synchronized

Oracle GoldenGate is good, but I would like to improve it. There is a need for whoever installs and configures Oracle GoldenGate to set the correct parameters for the use cases we need to use. In some cases, we had performance problems related to the streaming because there was a lot of information to stream concurrently. However, you can tune Oracle GoldenGate to use more RAM on the source side or more processes. I think that sometimes what is missing is knowledge about the tool from the person responsible for configuration. At this moment, Oracle GoldenGate is a very good tool, and I do not know in which area we can improve it. Perhaps the debug part of the tool could be improved. In some cases, I use the utility for how Oracle GoldenGate generates messages about the statements that it streams because of bugs, and in some cases, it is not very user-friendly. It may be possible to improve the API or the path related to debugging, but not the tool itself. The tool itself is good. I remember that in some configurations, we had problems with the streaming of DDL, which are changes to Oracle object structures such as tables and procedures. A new feature could be to perform streaming for operational objects such as procedures, functions, packages, or grants. This would synchronize source and target for these aspects, not only for data or the main types of structures, but also for others. I remember that there was some configuration in which you performed the streaming of the entire schema, or if you performed streaming for only tables, then you were unable to stream grants and other Oracle objects. I think it is important to introduce that capability.

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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

"Its data preparation capabilities are highly valuable."

"Cloud Pak's most valuable features are IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, and ISPF."

"DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources."

"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."

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

"You can model the data there, connect the data models with the business processes and create data lineage processes."

"One of Cloud Pak's best features is the Watson Knowledge Catalog, which helps you implement data governance."

"IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines are the most valuable features of the solution."

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"The replication of the data table is one of the best features."

"With Oracle GoldenGate, you can easily sync the tables and put them into the ODS database."

"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."

"What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace."

"It's very simple to configure, it's very simple to implement. In addition, the ability it has to capture data and transmit it with incredible speed is better than any of the product out there. It's extremely powerful."

"Ease of installation, maintenance and powerful outputs and supporting Big Data and Cloud environment as well as OGGCS (Oracle Golden Gate Cloud Service)."

"GoldenGate enables us to merge and transform data from various sources in real time. It's a powerful tool that can read and load most data sources."

"It works best with Oracle."

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Cons

"The setup for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is very complex, and our teams responsible for standing up the environment struggled a lot."

"What I would love to see is an end-to-end, almost a training demo database of some sort, where one of the biggest problems with data management is demonstrated."

"One thing that bugs me is how much infrastructure Cloud Pak requires for the initial deployment. It doesn't allow you to start small. The smallest permitted deployment is too big. It's a huge problem that prevents us from implementing the solution in many scenarios."

"The solution's user experience is an area that has room for improvement."

"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."

"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."

"The product must improve its performance."

"The solution's catalog searching or map search needs to be improved."

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"The product is not easy to use."

"The solution is quite costly, and if they could reduce their pricing, it would be more economical to implement."

"There are a lot of bugs in the solution."

"The GoldenGate license is very costly."

"The solution sometimes has issues with long transactions and replication delays. Its pricing needs improvement."

"The product lacks some features and it's expensive."

"Troubleshooting issues is not always the easiest. It should be easier to troubleshoot. Their support can also be improved. They don't read your problem statement and waste a lot of time. GoldenGate for big data is actually a separate license. It is sort of a separate product, but it might fall underneath your GoldenGate category. If we're talking about big data, its interaction with big data sources is poorly documented."

"It would be better for Oracle Golden Gate Studio GUI to include other licensed products (i.e. Veridata or others)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think that this product is too expensive for smaller companies."

"I don't have the exact licensing cost for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as my company is still finalizing requirements, including monthly, yearly, and three-year licensing fees. Still, on a scale of one to five, I'd rate it a three because, compared to other vendors, it's more complicated."

"For the licensing of the solution, there is a yearly payment that needs to be made. Also, since it is expensive, cost-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten."

"IBM Cloud Pak for Data is expensive. If we include the training time and the machine learning, it's expensive. The cost of the execution is more reasonable."

"Cloud Pak's cost is a little high."

"It's quite expensive."

"The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors."

"The solution is expensive."

"We have purchased corporate licensing to use Oracle GoldenGate."

"The tool is a bit expensive."

"The one feature that I think Oracle could perhaps consider is, at the moment, the Veridata option is an extra cost. Golden Gate is an expensive product. You pay a lot for the best. But not including the Veridata license to prove that everything is working correctly... The big improvement for me would be to have that license built in. That would take it to the next level. That would make it a much better product. You may want to look at buying term licenses if you've just got a single migration to do. In that situation, you might want a term license for perhaps a year to save a lot of money, rather than buying a perpetual license."

"We have an enterprise license for it. It might be for three years or so. I'm not aware of any additional costs to the standard licensing fee."

"The licensing model should be improved to be more cost-effective for the end users."

"Oracle GoldenGate's license can be expensive compared to other solutions like Qlik Replicate or SAP Replicate."

"The price of this solution is good."

"The product is expensive."

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Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 31, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	30

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

The pricing and setup cost are handled by a different procurement team. Our IT procurement team is centralized, so licensing and the actual cost of the software are taken care of by a different tea...

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

I do not know if Cognos has all the features that users are looking for since we provide it as our standard and do not maintain infrastructure for other tools.

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What is your primary use case for IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

The main use case for IBM Cognos is for business intelligence and reporting.

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What do you like most about Oracle GoldenGate?

The product is reliable for data integrity.

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

The pricing of Oracle GoldenGate depends on the discount we receive from Oracle. If the customer orders a larger quantity, we get a more flexible price. The list price is high, and the price can so...

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Comparisons

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Compared 40% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Compared 8% of the time

Azure Data Factory vs IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Compared 7% of the time

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Qlik Replicate vs Oracle GoldenGate

Compared 11% of the time

Fivetran vs Oracle GoldenGate

Compared 8% of the time

AWS Database Migration Service vs Oracle GoldenGate

Compared 7% of the time

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs Oracle GoldenGate

Compared 6% of the time

SharePlex vs Oracle GoldenGate

Compared 6% of the time

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Cloud Pak for Data

GoldenGate

Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data is a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations. Cloud-native by design, the platform unifies market-leading services spanning the entire analytics lifecycle. From data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps eliminate the need for costly, and often competing, point solutions while providing the information architecture you need to implement AI successfully.

Building on the streamlined hybrid-cloud foundation of Red Hat® OpenShift®, IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes advantage of the underlying resource and infrastructure optimization and management. The solution fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private cloud deployments. Find out how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can lower your total cost of ownership and accelerate innovation.

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Oracle GoldenGate is a real-time data integration and database replication solution. It can detect data events and route them across networks at very low latencies and integrates well with 100s of combinations of non-Oracle databases, data stores, and clouds.

Oracle GoldenGate Features

Oracle GoldenGate has many valuable key features, including:

Simple to use web interface
Fast and easy installation or provisioning
Command line access via AdminClient that can run anywhere
RESTful APIs for DevOps
Offers built-in monitoring but also can be easily adapted to roll your own monitoring
APIs are protected by Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) authentication.

Oracle GoldenGate Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Oracle GoldenGate include:

Oracle GoldenGate is deeply integrated with the Oracle Database (logging, redo, backup and recovery layer, security, administration, data guard, data vault, autonomous database etc.).
It is the most stable, performant, and reliable CDC / replication solution for Oracle.
High performance: Oracle GoldenGate is capable of sub-second latency for data movement. featuring low impact capture, routing, transformation, and delivery of transactional data.
GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication tool that keeps pace with new and emerging innovations (security, features, data types, etc) in the core Oracle Database.
The solution supports a wide range of use cases, from conventional OLTP data replication and high availability to data lake ingestion or multi-cloud ingestion, SaaS application replication, and messaging replication.
GoldenGate is the only CDC / replication technology certified for Exadata, Exadata Cloud Service, and Exadata Cloud at Customer.
For fault-tolerance, GoldenGate has its own mechanism to keep track of how much work is completed and how much is pending. This mechanism is independent of any database and ensures, with the help of automatic gap-resolution, that no data loss occurs.
GoldenGate uses its own proprietary format files for keeping the committed data coming from the source database, making it independently functional irrespective of the database in use.
To maintain the performance and consistency, only committed data is sent. Uncommitted data is captured by GoldenGate, but is discarded after receiving a Rollback.
With GoldenGate, data sending is in “near real time,” which reduces the possibility of latency.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Oracle GoldenGate users.

PeerSpot user Steve-J., Cloud Migration Software Consultant - UK & EMEA at 1PLACE, says, "What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations. Its migrations are fast. There are not many tools like it on the marketplace."

Pinak S., Senior Manager of System and Database at ESL, mentions, “We like how in GoldenGate the heterogeneous database is supported. Sometimes the client actually needs a schedule and needs to ensure the state of databases for reporting purposes. With that in mind, we have been able to configure GoldenGate for certain schema. The solution is quite stable. They've recently improved the ease of implementation.”

A Database Administrator at a manufacturing company explains, "It moves the data as you set it up, and it works. I am also very impressed with its stability and scalability. It is not super feature-rich, but the new releases have more functionality. It recently had more native integrations with Oracle Database. If you are using it against an Oracle database, it has a lot more functionality."

An Oracle ERP DBA Consultant - Oracle Super Cluster T5-8 Admin at a government comments, "GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."

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