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IDERA ER/Studio vs Oracle Coherence comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

IDERA ER/Studio
Ranking in Database Development and Management
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Architecture Management (9th)
Oracle Coherence
Ranking in Database Development and Management
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
In-Memory Data Store Services (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of IDERA ER/Studio is 3.5%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Coherence is 3.8%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IDERA ER/Studio3.5%
Oracle Coherence3.8%
Other92.7%
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2796111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Improved data modeling has reduced system footprint and strengthened finance workflows
I assess the benefits of IDERA ER_Studio's metadata management for my organization as not as good as Erwin's. Erwin's metadata management is better in how it handles data. There is a lot more user involvement in managing the metadata, primarily because in IDERA ER_Studio, the logical and physical models are separately defined in the same file, so you have to map them every single time. In Erwin, it has a unified structure, so if you make a change in the logical model, it automatically shows up in the physical model. You have to go through a couple of steps in the IDERA model to make sure everything has moved over. While that is not that inconvenient when you are actually doing development, as far as metadata management, that is prone to things getting dropped and missed. The collaboration tools in IDERA ER_Studio are adequate, but I think with Erwin, there is more of an opportunity for things to crash. Changes can be merged in IDERA more fluidly; however, the locking and sharing are a little bit more defined in Erwin. I think the learning curve for Erwin might be easier than IDERA ER_Studio, especially with connecting to different models and systems.
SS
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Facilitating real-time business insights with enhanced data querying
Coherence is beneficial due to its multi-indexing to the same object and filtering based on data attributes within the object, followed by aggregation. These features facilitate querying data with multiple keys rather than just a single key. Its real-time data processing capabilities provide insights for business decisions with up-to-date information.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"This has helped the new application development team in cross-verifying, and understanding, the current setup, proposing and architecting new solutions for the organisation."
"We are able to document the data lineage and data flows of our data from one system to another."
"We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution."
"Using this product has improved the way we maintain our models because they have a place where we can keep all of them, and they can be viewed using the web interface."
"With both onshore and offshore development teams working 18x5 days, it is an easy way to control check-in's while also maintaining schema views."
"Intuitive user interface provides for quick learning curve."
"IDERA ER_Studio does a lot more and performs model comparison much better than Erwin."
"Technical support from Oracle is okay."
"Coherence absolutely outperforms others in terms of scalability, reliability, and performance."
"Coherence allows linear on-line scalability across multiple commodity servers."
"Basically reducing response times to extremely small latencies in their apps."
"Coherence has helped us to drastically reduce the request time of our web applications."
"The biggest improvement is in speed - everything is faster from record retrieval to workflow processing."
"Since we implemented Coherence, this data is in memory all the time; so the results are found in milliseconds instead of five seconds."
"The product is great, simple, and easy to use and integrate."
 

Cons

"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"We receive these new functionalities, and sometimes we start to test them and we find errors that we need to correct by talking with tech support."
"The print facility is a little lacking."
"It is expensive! Licensing requires a subscription to their support site."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"ER/Studio lacks a pure cloud option for deployment."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."
"The price is high. I believe there should be a cheaper version for only the caching solution."
"Complexity being a huge contributor to risk/cost for projects, I am more likely to use other products as a result."
"Due to the licensing prices, we are looking for other solutions as an alternative to Coherence."
"The product is the best, but it's absurdly expensive because licensing is according to the number of CPUs."
"It is very easy to set up a basic topology, but hard to configure and tune to make it really work."
"I would like to see a more modern API like Hazelcast or Infinispan."
"Data transfer performance over geographical locations. Oracle database has better performance compared to Coherence when accessed from different regions."
"We have nodes failing all the time, especially because of timeouts caused by node synchronization, but occasionally there are also memory-related errors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this product is okay."
"I use the product's trial version."
"I am currently using the trial version, but this solution is definitely worth considering for the price point."
"As an individual user, the renewal is a little costly."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"The setup cost may have been around $1500 to $2000."
"At my previous company using ER/Studio, a database compare took four hours before using the product and 15 minutes after using the product."
"I'm a firm believer that all software is overpriced these days but, comparatively speaking, I think ER/Studio is worth the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Energy/Utilities Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise25
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IDERA ER Studio?
In terms of pricing, ER/Studio is slightly more expensive compared to Erwin, by about five to ten percent.
What is your primary use case for IDERA ER Studio?
I work in the finance industry, and the use cases for this product are very similar to what I mentioned previously when I discussed being in industrial management. It is simply a different product.
What advice do you have for others considering IDERA ER Studio?
I have not used IDERA ER_Studio's impact analysis tools, so I really could not judge that regarding mitigating database risks for security. I am not on the end as far as the pricing, as this is wha...
What needs improvement with Oracle Coherence?
The WebLogic Management is quite cumbersome. The initial setup is complex and time-consuming.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Coherence?
I utilize Coherence for data solutions in the financial industry. Its primary use case includes plain lookup, indexing, filtering, and aggregation.
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Coherence?
I recommend Coherence, as I don't have any product issues. The main concerns are high pricing and a complex initial setup. Overall, I would rate Coherence as an eight out of ten.
 

Also Known As

IDERA ER Studio, ER/Studio, ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition
Coherence
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Newmont Mining, Entrust, Accolade, TalkTalk, Catalina, Protective Life, NTT Data, dir systèmes, Microsoft; American Express, Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Coriant, Fedex, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, Prudential, Wells Fargo
Industrial Bank of Korea, Hotelbeds, Canon Inc., Verizon, Securitas Direct Espa_a, S.A.U., CetelemEspa_aGrupo BNP Paribas, Telus
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