We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and Quest Spotlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time."
"It does the job."
"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"Modeling with Data Architect: We can quickly reverse-engineer a database from an existing database or create a model from scratch."
"One of the valuable features is inheritance when joining tables. When setting up RI and domains and rules, ER/Studio does a lot of the grunt, boilerplate code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded."
"We use the solution to create data models which describe our company's data architecture"
"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."
"The reverse engineering is the most important feature."
"I consider the solution very scalable."
"Its dashboards are most valuable. The drill-down of the dashboards is useful."
"The tool is a SaaS product where I just need to type a URL and start with the design process. I can integrate all elements of source control like GitHub, GitLab, etc. The tool also supports authentication-related provisions like SSH."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"What I would like to see improved is the reliability of the releases, releases that are a little less buggy."
"They allow functionalities to be released before the full tests for catching and correcting errors are completed."
"It isn't easy to compare the thousands of tables in the model against the database. The tool should improve the synchronization within the large organization"
"Sometimes our version is a little unstable. But I think this problem occurs because our version is old."
"Whenever there is a new version, there are a lot of release notes on the technical side of it, but I would like to be told why are we doing the upgrade... What I would like to really see is how this benefits us from the business point of view. What are the real benefits that the user gets? I want some kind of way white paper. The release notes describe the technical enhancements but, from the layman's point of view, if someone asks me what are the business benefits of this upgrade, I don't have any documentation to explain it to the business."
"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."
"One limitation I have found in ER/Studio is that when you want to make some changes to the table definitions, you have to go item by item. You cannot do it globally. Another issue concerns defining the foreign keys between the different tables. It is a little more tedious in the ER/Studio than in ERrwin. With ERwin it is direct."
"There's no reporting with this tool, and there really should be. They should add that into future releases."
"The software does not support webhooks. It doesn't support advanced versions of APIs. The tool also doesn't support advanced versions of specifications. The change that we do in one part of the model is not reflected throughout the specification. There are also some mutations in the clones. I am not able to do a local source control with the product as well."
"Some customizations of the dashboard, such as having backup reports, would be useful."
IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 13th in Database Development and Management with 33 reviews while Quest Spotlight is ranked 6th in Database Development and Management with 4 reviews. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while Quest Spotlight is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Spotlight writes "Good tool for the design and development of public APIs". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, SAP PowerDesigner, Toad Data Modeler and erwin Evolve by Quest, whereas Quest Spotlight is most compared with Quest Foglight for Databases, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.
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