Oracle GoldenGate Reviews

We are using it for getting data back.

It works best with Oracle.

The front-end management isn't very good.

Its pricing and licensing can also be better.

I have been using this solution for about a year.

It is very stable.

It is very scalable.

Their technical support is pretty good. I would rate them a four out of five.

It was easy to set up.

I installed it myself.

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.

I would recommend this product. It's pretty good. 

I would rate it a seven out of ten.

Our primary use is to transfer data or tables in databases from one server to another.

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

There are some DDLs that have problems with GoldenGate. These issues detract from stability and it is something that should be improved.

I would like to see the interface more graphical and easier to use. I like Microsoft products, for example, because they are easy to use. When I work in SQL Server, which is integrated with Oracle GoldenGate, I find it better to work in than Oracle.

We have been using Oracle GoldenGate for the past three or four years.

GoldenGate is a stable product.

Usually, it works with no problems. Sometimes there are issues, but we have been able to solve them.

It is easy to scale once you learn it.

This product has been working well in our environment so we haven't had the need to contact technical support.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took three or four months to complete.

The implementation was done by the Oracle team.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product that its suitability depends on the environment. If Oracle is being used then it is a good solution but otherwise, another product would be a better choice. I would suggest using a solution by the same vendor as the database that is being used.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The solution in our organization is not used for execution. We use it for a few schedules and to replicate in different databases.

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.

Right now, the solution is working quite well for us as it is.

The solution is quite costly, and if they could reduce their pricing, it would be more economical to implement.

I've been using the solution for the past three to five years.

The solution is very reliable. I don't recall experiencing bugs or glitches, or crashes, for that matter. I'd describe it as very stable.

The solution is extremely scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it should be able to do so without any issues.

We're a service provider and we implement products to companies of various sizes.

As a vendor company, we're eligible to give support to our clients if they need it. As for contacting their technical support services, I don't recall if we really needed to, so I can't speak to their quality of service.

I've only ever worked with this solution. I haven't tried any similar solutions in the past.

In previous versions, the solution wasn't so easy to implement. In the latest version of the solution, they've made it really straightforward. It's much less complex than it was previously.

How long deployment takes depends on your formation and your design. If you want to do two more samples just for feature comparing, then it will take maybe three to four hours, if that. However, if you want to do some complex configurations, while it depends on the customer, it will take longer. How much of a database they want to initiate with GoldenGate will factor in on the length of time it will take. If the size is bigger by one million or even 200,000, then it will take much longer. 

We're a vendor company; we help our customers with the implementation.

The cost of the solution is a bit high. It's higher than a lot of competitors.

We're a reseller. We help our clients implement the solution.

I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm using or if it's the most current. 

GoldenGate, right now, is a really fantastic solution. The price is high, but it's worth the cost, in my opinion.  

It works with heterogeneous environments like Oracle, or IBM digital. We host it in servers and we host it in databases. A lot of the times we also host it in MySQL or on the MySQL database. 

The solution uses a very low latency bandwidth because GoldenGate actually transfers the data. It will not take up a lot of resources like CPU or memory.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I am part of a consulting firm and we build database solutions for our customers. Oracle GoldenGate is one of the products that we assist our clients with.

It is primarily used to replicate data from the main database to a backup server.

The most valuable feature is data replication capability.

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

One of our clients began using Oracle GoldenGate in 2013 and a second client started with it in 2018.

Oracle GoldenGate is pretty much stable.

I haven't encountered any issues in terms of scalability.  We are working with solutions where there is not much in terms of scope.

Technical support from Oracle is good. We were able to get help and good advice from them.

The initial setup was complex. It took a lot of time to get it stabilized.

The price of this solution is good.

Oracle GoldenGate is a product that I would recommend.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Right now we use GoldenGate adapt tools to integrate the Oracle database with Microsoft DataPoint. We also use GoldenGate for CDB and as a sophisticated feature for auditing on records and to help with records capture by GoldenGate. 

GoldenGate is a perfect product. It's very stable and can integrate heterogenic systems. I believe GoldenGate is one of the best Oracle products.

Monitoring needs improvement. Right now we lose a lot of of time and effort. To have a real monitoring system is the most important thing. If you replicate between systems 24/7, you need a strong monitoring tool. It's not taken from a lot of effort and a lot of support and involvement with Nexus adapters to plug into our Oracle enterprise manager. 

Scalability also needs to be addressed. There's not a straightforward way to handle it.

The solution, in general, should be easier to use, with less need to perform workarounds within the system.

It's a very stable product because of its processing ability. If we have any issues, Oracle resolves them quickly. I appreciate Oracle support. It ensures GoldenGate offers a stable service.

Scalability is a challenge. I believe this area also needs more effort. If I need to set up GoldenGate on high availability deployment, we have to do a lot of workarounds. High levels of scalability are a challenge. It's not straightforward. 

Oracle technical support in GoldenGate is not the same as Oracle support for their Azure database. Usually, we try to handle it ourselves because if we have to call, it might take three or four days and still not be handled correctly.

The initial setup is straightforward. It doesn't take too much time or effort to implement the solution.

I would rate this solution around eight or nine out of ten. The solution is extremely stable.

We are a reseller, and we implement this solution for our clients. They are generally either government or financial institutions. These clients use other Oracle technologies for tasks such as identity management and business intelligence. This solution is used to replicate the data for purposes such as disaster recovery and high availability.

The most valuable feature of this solution is data replication. When we are replicating data between similar databases then it is straightforward.

We are having a challenge in that we want to replicate different types of data, from one database to another, that have different types of elements. The process of transforming the data between two different databases is inefficient and needs to be improved.

Technical support for this solution could be improved.

The integration is not straightforward and should be made simpler.

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

Scalability of this solution depends on the licensing from Oracle.

We have had trouble with the Oracle technical support. When we need them to reply to us, we need to open a 24/7 ticket. If we open a critical ticket instead, then nobody replies and it takes a lot of time. Consequently, whenever we are facing an issue and we need to open a Service Request (SR), we use the 24/7 support. This leads to three people working in parallel to resolve our problem. Otherwise, we will not get a resolution.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. For the installation, you need only follow the steps in the documentation.

There are a lot of tricks when it comes to licensing.

This is a good solution for data replication, but there are some areas that need to be improved.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We implement this solution for our customers, and our most recent deployment was for a client in France. The solution involved one central database and ten replicas that were distributed to the local offices. The central database is automatically updated as the replicas are changed, and similarly, when the central database is modified, each of the local copies is updated accordingly.

Using this solution has improved both the speed and efficiency of the data replication process. Prior to this, I used packages with merge functionality for replication. The process was very slow, and sometimes had negative effects on the production database. 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 most valuable feature is the CDC (Changed Data Capture), which captures only the changes that are made to the data. This has the lowest load on the production database, and it runs very quickly in the background.

Reading directly from the log file makes updating the databases very fast.

I find the user interface to be difficult for non-technical people. It was suggested to me that I use the command prompt, which is fine for me because I am a technical person. However, when showing others, such as managers, how to use the product to provide details such as the system status, it is a bit difficult.

The inclusion of monitoring and management tools would be very nice.

The Oracle documentation is very complex, and some of the documents are very long. I prefer to use sites that are on the topic of Oracle, but in fact, are not run by Oracle itself.

In our experience, there is zero technical support for this solution.

This is a very stable solution, and I haven't had any problem with the tools.

This solution scales easily. It's dependent on the files and configuration, and you can do anything you want.

This solution is being used on a daily basis. We have approximately one thousand users on the production database, including both developers and end-users. We do have plans to increase our usage, although the interface for monitoring and managing becomes difficult to use when it grows to a certain point.

I have contacted technical support, but could not get any support. I would say that the support is zero.

Prior to this solution, we had a package that used an SQL process. It had come from Oracle Scheduler. We switched because it negatively impacted our production database, making it very slow. If there was downtime and the production database had transactions then it would take days to recover from the lag.

The initial setup of this solution is of medium difficulty. It is not straightforward; however, it is not as complex as it looks.

For a single deployment that has two sites, I would expect the process to take less than two hours, although it depends on the complexity of the replication.

An example of a more complicated configuration is where only a subset of the tables are being replicated, and the flow of data is different in both directions. Setting this up can take a very long time, and incur a large cost because of coding time.

We have three people to manage and maintain this solution. This includes making changes to the database. For the monitoring and altering, one person is sufficient and it will not take one hundred percent of their time.

We handled the implementation of this solution in-house.

We do like the price of this solution.

We did not evaluate other options when we chose this solution, although I am now considering other tools.

This solution is priced well, is fast, and doesn't have any impact on our production database.

I would rate this solution and eight out of ten.

Our primary use for this solution is the replication of data between heterogeneous environments to implement a data hub. We use this for reporting purposes or to publish data to the various systems (acquire and publish technique) using multiple technologies and multiple platforms. They are typically Oracle DBs on Oracle platforms, with some different types of databases, like Teradata, and also sourcing data into Hadoop Big Data.

This solution has a well-known procedure for troubleshooting and tuning the performance, providing for smooth operation. There is minimal effort required for maintenance, which would be performed by non-dedicated DBA.

The most valuable feature of this solution is its compatibility with Oracle DB and Oracle products, generally, as our environment is really dependant on them.

The flexibility for customization as well as the scalability of the tool is very important, as we expand our environment we can expand and scale up the tool on the go.

The User Interface should be improved in newer versions, but without putting any restrictions on the customization capabilities. Additional performance metrics should be added and visible in a dashboard, displayed in a detailed manner.

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

This solution is straightforward to implement with a hassle-free setup.