IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs Oracle GoldenGate comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2. IBM holds a 0.9% mindshare in DI, compared to Oracle’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% 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 InfoSphere Information Server are competing in the data integration solutions category. Oracle GoldenGate has the upper hand in real-time data integration, while IBM InfoSphere Information Server excels in data governance and quality features.

Features: Oracle GoldenGate supports real-time data capturing, transformation, and delivery, ensuring high availability and consistency with cross-platform support. IBM InfoSphere Information Server offers robust data profiling, cleansing, and comprehensive metadata management for diverse data landscapes.

Room for Improvement: Oracle GoldenGate could enhance user interface intuitiveness, offer more built-in transformation functions, and simplify license management. IBM InfoSphere Information Server might improve integration with third-party tools, reduce complexity in customization, and enhance real-time data processing capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle GoldenGate is appreciated for its straightforward setup process and efficient support, enhancing deployment agility. IBM InfoSphere Information Server, while more complex to deploy, offers detailed documentation and a strong support network to assist in intricate implementations.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle GoldenGate involves higher upfront costs due to its specialized replication functions but often yields higher ROI through efficient data handling. IBM InfoSphere Information Server may incur higher ongoing costs due to its comprehensive suite, yet provides substantial long-term ROI through improved data quality and management.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM InfoSphere Information ...

Ranking in Data Integration

31st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Metadata Management (7th)

Oracle GoldenGate

Ranking in Data Integration

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM InfoSphere Information Server is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate is 3.6%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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UmeshKumar1

Business Analyst Team Lead at Accenture

Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability

IBM InfoSphere Information Server has multiple tools in that product suite. However, we mainly use it as an integration tool I have been using IBM InfoSphere Information Server for approximately five years. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable. IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be…

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ShahidNadeem

DBA at Virgin Media

Handles migrations well and has reduced our downtime

For small databases that are less than a terabyte, GoldenGate handles the migration well. You don't need much input so long as the processes don't upend. As soon as there's a problem, then, obviously, you need to diagnose it. It all depends on the scenario, on the size of the databases, whether you're doing schema replication, or table replication. We normally do the whole database, taking everything across. Finally, because this is an Oracle product, there is support available 24/7.

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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

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

"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."

"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."

"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."

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

"For small databases, GoldenGate handles the migration well."

"The most valuable feature is data replication capability."

"The live application feature is most valuable. The solution is stable. I rate it a seven out of ten."

"GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server."

"It scales well. You can either have it working in with the databases, or you can move it outside. It's got the ability to parallelize up, so you can certainly extract and replay the data from your databases in parallel. So it does have horizontal scalability. That is probably one of its stronger features, the ability just to automatically parallelize the replay and playing of data to allow to scale to large volumes."

"This solution provides us with real-time replication and it does not affect the performance of other operations, which is very important to us."

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

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Cons

"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."

"Their technical support needs improvement."

"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."

"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."

"The solution costs a lot."

"You cannot put everything in Golden Gate for the license and large models."

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

"The problem with GoldenGate is it is very complex to use. You need heavyweight skills to use it."

"Microservices Architecture is not user-friendly."

"I find the user interface to be difficult for non-technical people."

"What needs improvement in Oracle GoldenGate is the support. Another feature that needs to be improved in the solution is its GUI. It would be useful for programmers or users to be able to work from the GUI, not just from the command line. Simplifying how Oracle GoldenGate is used would also make the solution better."

"Regarding improvements, the focus should be on addressing data quality issues and minimizing delays, particularly in Oracle databases. The technical support should be improved as well. Additionally, in terms of features, it would be great if the solution could support APIs. The support is not friendly. They don’t respond on time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost of IBM InfoSphere Information Server depends on how many users there are."

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

"The solution would be costly for a small organization."

"The return on investment would make it a worthwhile deal."

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

"The solution is highly-priced."

"Oracle GoldenGate's cost is high."

"The price is high. Consequently, when clients or customers acquire the solution, they tend to utilize it to its maximum extent due to this factor."

"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."

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Mar 31, 2014

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Government

14%

Insurance Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

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

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What needs improvement with IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required. In our company, we are presently in the process of doing a PoC phase since we have the solution cu...

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What is your primary use case for IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

I use IBM InfoSphere Information Server in retail banking for transformation purposes.

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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 is quite high. However, its cost-effectiveness stems from its unique features that are not commonly available in other products. Still, it is not cheap, and I would...

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What needs improvement with Oracle GoldenGate?

There is room for improvement in Oracle GoldenGate's pricing, which is a bit high. Additionally, the configuration process could be made simpler. Although it serves well, these aspects could be imp...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Information Server, IBM Information Server

GoldenGate

Overview

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a market-leading data integration platform which includes a family of products that enable you to understand, cleanse, monitor, transform, and deliver data, as well as to collaborate to bridge the gap between business and IT. InfoSphere Information Server provides massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities to deliver a highly scalable and flexible integration platform that handles a variety of data volumes (big, small, and everything in between).

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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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Sample Customers

Canadian National Railway Company, Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce, Swedish Armed Forces, BG RCI, Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd., University of Arizona, Biogrid Australia

Japan Exchange Group, Daewoo E&C, Herbalife, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Canon, Turk Telekom

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