Oracle GoldenGate vs Spring Cloud Data Flow comparison

Oracle and VMware are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.1, while VMware is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. Oracle holds a 3.4% mindshare in DI, compared to VMware’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

Oracle GoldenGate

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Oracle GoldenGate and Spring Cloud Data Flow compete in the realm of data integration and management. Oracle GoldenGate appears to have the upper hand in reliability and integration with Oracle products, while Spring Cloud Data Flow offers a cost-effective and flexible open-source solution suitable for cloud environments.

Features: Oracle GoldenGate excels in real-time data replication, supports multiple databases like SQL Server and DB2, and offers strong Change Data Capture capabilities. It provides bi-directional replication and integrates well with other Oracle products. Meanwhile, Spring Cloud Data Flow simplifies the orchestration of microservices with easy cloud integrations, delivers a straightforward programming model, and features automatic configuration for tasks.

Room for Improvement: Oracle GoldenGate faces challenges with high licensing costs, complexity in integration with non-Oracle systems, and a need for a more intuitive user interface. Conversely, Spring Cloud Data Flow needs enhancements in user interface design, expanded technical support, and more comprehensive documentation, as users find complexities in configuration and troubleshooting difficult to manage.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle GoldenGate is widely compatible with both on-premises and hybrid cloud setups, though it receives mixed reviews on its technical support responsiveness. Spring Cloud Data Flow is noted for effortless private cloud deployment and quicker support response in critical situations but suffers from limited community support affecting complex issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle GoldenGate, though viewed as expensive due to its pricing model based on core usage and additional components, offers significant ROI because of its advanced features for large-scale deployments. Spring Cloud Data Flow benefits from being open-source with core features available for free, making it appealing for those seeking a cost-effective solution with added charges only for support services.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle GoldenGate

Ranking in Data Integration

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Ranking in Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Oracle GoldenGate is 3.4%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Cloud Data Flow is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PatrickKuria

Enterprise Systems Engineer at Sybyl

Syncs data in real-time while managing transaction volumes

The most valuable feature of Oracle GoldenGate is its ability to sync data in real-time, which is crucial for me. I set it to a master-master pluggable database that serves as a container used from clones to provide test environments for various teams. This makes it very effective in managing high-volume transactions. The ability to sync data in real time is a key feature I rely on.

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NitinGoyal

Engineering Lead at Naukri.com

Has a plug-and-play model and provides good robustness and scalability

The solution's community support could be improved. I don't know why the Spring Cloud Data Flow community is not very strong. Community support is very limited whenever you face any problem or are stuck somewhere. I'm not sure whether it has improved in the last six months because this pipeline was set up almost two years ago. I struggled with that a lot. For example, there was limited support whenever I got an exception and sought help from Stack Overflow or different forums. Interacting with Kubernetes needs a few certificates. You need to define all the certificates within your application. With the help of those certificates, your Java application or Spring Cloud Data Flow can interact with Kubernetes. I faced a lot of hurdles while placing those certificates. Despite following the official documentation to define all the replicas, readiness, and liveliness probes within the Spring Cloud Data Flow application, it was not working. So, I had to troubleshoot while digging in and debugging the internals of Spring Cloud Data Flow at that time. It was just a configuration mismatch, and I was doing nothing weird. There was a small spelling difference between how Spring Cloud Data Flow was expecting it and how I passed it. I was just following the official documentation.

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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

"I like that the product transforms data and provides real-time applications."

"The real-time replication feature of the product is particularly beneficial."

"You can use Oracle GoldenGate as a DR for your system."

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

"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."

"The CDC feature is interesting."

"Since the world is going towards open source, the solution's heterogeneous data migration feature is very useful."

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

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"The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."

"The product is very user-friendly."

"The most valuable features of Spring Cloud Data Flow are the simple programming model, integration, dependency Injection, and ability to do any injection. Additionally, auto-configuration is another important feature because we don't have to configure the database and or set up the boilerplate in the database in every project. The composability is good, we can create small workloads and compose them in any way we like."

"The best thing I like about Spring Cloud Data Flow is its plug-and-play model."

"The dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

"The ease of deployment on Kubernetes, the seamless integration for orchestration of various pipelines, and the visual dashboard that simplifies operations even for non-specialists such as quality analysts."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows us to use different batch data sources, retrieve the data, and then do the data processing, after which we can convert and store it in the target."

"There are a lot of options in Spring Cloud. It's flexible in terms of how we can use it. It's a full infrastructure."

Cons

"Microservices Architecture is not user-friendly."

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

"The main problem of Oracle GoldenGate is that sometimes, the processes get abended. Data consistency is also challenging."

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

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

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

"It's stable but you have to know how to maintain it. That's why it's not 10 out of 10 for me. There are some bugs, there are some issues here and there. All of a sudden your process is not working and you have to figure out why, and sometimes it's not so clear."

"The solution costs a lot."

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"The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."

"Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve the user interface. We can drag and drop in the application for the configuration and settings, and deploy it right from the UI, without having to run a CI/CD pipeline. However, that does not work with Kubernetes, it only works when we are working with jars as the Spring Cloud Data Flow applications."

"Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving."

"Spring Cloud Data Flow is not an easy-to-use tool, so improvements are required."

"I would improve the dashboard features as they are not very user-friendly."

"There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or refreshing the dashboard."

"The solution's community support could be improved."

"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Oracle GoldenGate's cost is high."

"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 is a high-priced solution because it follows the core-based pricing model versus the software-based pricing model of other solutions."

"The product is expensive."

"The tool needs to improve its pricing."

"The solution is highly-priced."

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

More Oracle GoldenGate pricing and cost advice

"If you want support from Spring Cloud Data Flow there is a fee. The Spring Framework is open-source and this is a free solution."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"The solution provides value for money, and we are currently using its community edition."

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

Mar 31, 2014

Oracle GoldenGate vs. Oracle Active Dataguard

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

17%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

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Small Business

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?

For Oracle GoldenGate, customers face challenges with patching, the latest updates, and encountering bugs. The upgrade and patching process can be difficult, and improvements in these areas would p...

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What needs improvement with Spring Cloud Data Flow?

There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or r...

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What is your primary use case for Spring Cloud Data Flow?

We had a project for content management, which involved multiple applications each handling content ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and storage for different customers independently. We want...

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What advice do you have for others considering Spring Cloud Data Flow?

I would definitely recommend Spring Cloud Data Flow. It requires minimal additional effort or time to understand how it works, and even non-specialists can use it effectively with its friendly docu...

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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

Spring Cloud Data Flow is a toolkit for building data integration and real-time data processing pipelines.
Pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. This makes Spring Cloud Data Flow suitable for a range of data processing use cases, from import/export to event streaming and predictive analytics. Use Spring Cloud Data Flow to connect your Enterprise to the Internet of Anything—mobile devices, sensors, wearables, automobiles, and more.

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