Oracle GoldenGate vs SAP Replication Server comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Oracle is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.7, while SAP is ranked #42 with an average rating of 7.0. Oracle holds a 1.6% mindshare in DI, compared to SAP’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle GoldenGate

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAP Replication Server and Oracle GoldenGate are competing in the data replication and integration category. Oracle GoldenGate has the upper hand with its superior features, which justify its price point, especially in complex data environments.

Features: SAP Replication Server provides powerful real-time data replication, supports multiple database platforms, and integrates easily with SAP environments. Oracle GoldenGate offers advanced features such as heterogeneous database support, efficient data filtering, and real-time data transformations, making it highly versatile and suitable for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: SAP Replication Server could enhance its support for non-SAP environments and refine its feature set for competitive parity with Oracle. Improvements in user interface for simplifying complex configurations may also add value. Oracle GoldenGate may benefit from easing the deployment process and simplifying the usage of its advanced features. The tool could also improve integration support for non-Oracle systems to broaden its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Replication Server is known for straightforward deployment and highly reliable customer support, facilitating smooth integration with SAP systems. Oracle GoldenGate's deployment is more complex due to its wide system support but offers scalability and comprehensive services, proving advantageous for large enterprises with extensive data infrastructure.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Replication Server provides a cost-effective solution with quicker setup and positive ROI in SAP-integrated environments. Oracle GoldenGate, although more expensive initially, offers significant ROI with its robust features and scalability for handling large data volumes across diverse systems. Its pricing is justified by long-term benefits in functionality.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle GoldenGate

Ranking in Data Integration

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP Replication Server

Ranking in Data Integration

42nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate is 1.6%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Replication Server is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle GoldenGate	1.6%
SAP Replication Server	0.8%
Other	97.6%

Data Integration

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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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reviewer1834542

Finance Business Process Improvement, Transformation and Project Management at a consultancy with self employed

Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage

The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades. As a company, you're either hiring or paying an outsourcer to do that, and you have to manage it, keep up with the updates to the hardware, software, and the operating system. It's very expensive because there's a lot to control and take care of.

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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

"The solution is useful for data transformation."

"Many of the features of Oracle GoldenGate are valuable. We use Oracle databases and this tool is from Oracle, making it have superior compatibility."

"We use the tool to pull on-prem data."

"GoldenGate offers an excellent ROI if you use the product cleverly."

"What I have found the most valuable about GoldenGate is that it does real-time and no-downtime migrations."

"I am impressed with the tool's possibility of integrating different systems in a unified place."

"This solution is stable and we aren't facing any issues."

"Oracle GoldenGate is a product that I would recommend."

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"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."

"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."

"This product has a catalog with the location of all the objects which were replicated, and it's very simple to maintain."

"The most valuable thing about this product is that it replicates data between SAP databases (ASE to IQ) very successfully."

"It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle."

"We use this solution for all kinds of communications like RFC, BAPI, IDoc, connecting with the orders, accounts, finance, data stuff, banking, everything."

"Currently, there is a Hadoop-based infrastructure with several engineers to maintain the data, and now, using SAP Replication Server, it has become automatic and requires fewer people to put data in the data warehouse."

"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

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Cons

"It should be easier to integrate this solution with non-Oracle databases, including cloud-based solutions hosted on Azure."

"There is room for improvement in Oracle GoldenGate's pricing, which is a bit high."

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

"In some cases, we had performance problems related to the streaming because there was a lot of information to stream concurrently."

"Oracle GoldenGate Studio could be more user-friendly."

"The process of transforming the data between two different databases is inefficient and needs to be improved."

"The price of Oracle GoldenGate should be lowered. It is expensive compared to other solutions."

"It would be great if Oracle added some enhanced features or more functionalities to Oracle GoldenGate."

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"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."

"If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those."

"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."

"Setup was a little complex."

"There is a need to improve performance in high transactional processes."

"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."

"It's complex. It's necessary to understand a little about infrastructure, like network LAN and VLAN environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 price of this solution is good."

"Pricing is based on anual licensing with additional costs for support packages."

"Its price can be better. It is a bit crazy, and its licensing is very difficult to understand. I would rate it one out of five in terms of pricing. There don't seem to be any additional costs."

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

"The price of Oracle GoldenGate should be lowered. It is expensive compared to other solutions."

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

"Licensing for Oracle GoldenGate is paid yearly."

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"You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."

"It's a very expensive solution."

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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

20%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Retailer

11%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

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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What needs improvement with Oracle GoldenGate?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Replication Server?

It's a pretty good product and stable.

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What needs improvement with SAP Replication Server?

SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports. If someone wants to repl...

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What is your primary use case for SAP Replication Server?

It's basically to transfer data from one server to another. It's used for this purpose.

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Also Known As

GoldenGate

Sybase Replication Server

Overview

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."

Oracle

Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

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Sample Customers

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

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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