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Sadat Mohammad Rifat
Business Manager at LS Systems Philippines
Oracle GoldenGate is beneficial for data replication and ensures secure data transport. We use it for database redundancy, and it is crucial for the replication of data. Additionally, Active Data Guard is an important feature for disaster recovery site applications, and we use other Oracle services like Oracle Diagnostic Pack and tuning pack.
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PatrickKuria
Enterprise Systems Engineer at Sybyl
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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Vijay Manoharan
IT Technical Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The product is reliable for data integrity. We haven't had any data loss issues. The product does what it is supposed to do. It performs real-time replication without data loss. Most of our replication is unidirectional. When there are bidirectional replications, we use conflict detection and resolution. We can use the tool to define that one database has more priority on certain applications and another on others.
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Oracle GoldenGate
June 2025
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Prashant Sukhe
Sr Director / Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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Gerson Silveira
Managing Partner at Gs Consultoria em Ti LTDA
One feature that stands out for me is the data center capability. Leveraging Azure servers, we can effortlessly synchronize data between servers, whether it's from one source to another. This is done seamlessly without the need for additional configurations, just a simple pump to facilitate the process. Another noteworthy feature is its adaptability to changes in the source, such as the addition of a new column or details in Oracle. There's no necessity to modify subsequent processes; a service adjustment suffices, streamlining the workflow. Its reliability is commendable, and maintenance is both straightforward and efficient. Additionally, it facilitates customization for specific market needs. Overall, it is not only user-friendly but also easy to comprehend in various aspects.
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ShahidNadeem
DBA at Virgin Media
For small databases that are less than a terabyte, GoldenGate handles the migration well. You don't need much input so long as the processes don't upend. As soon as there's a problem, then, obviously, you need to diagnose it. It all depends on the scenario, on the size of the databases, whether you're doing schema replication, or table replication. We normally do the whole database, taking everything across. Finally, because this is an Oracle product, there is support available 24/7.
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Andriy Cherneha
IT Architect at Kredobank
The platform's most helpful features are its speed and its guarantee of data replication from one database to another.
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IfeoluwaOshinowo
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Computer Information Systems (CIS)
The most valuable feature of Oracle GoldenGate is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions like Oracle Data Guard, especially for Oracle-to-non-Oracle replication scenarios. Secondly, its versatility in supporting data replication across different operating systems and platforms is highly valuable, making it the go-to tool for heterogeneous environments.
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reviewer2328243
Solution architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution supports large-volume databases. Since the world is going towards open source, the solution's heterogeneous data migration feature is very useful. The solution is helpful as the databases need to be available as DC and DR.
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Arun Kumarasamy
Exadata ,Senior Oracle DBA and Goldengate Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution is useful for data transformation.
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ShanmugaSundaram
Vice President - Database management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The replication of the data table is one of the best features.
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Vipin Mani
Software Engineering Manager/VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oracle GoldenGate features work fine, which is what I like about it. I also like that it's scalable, easy to set up, and has good technical support.
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IT Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We ensure that the data is replicated from one type of database to another immediately. It helps us with reporting, providing information to end users, and data management. We can replicate data across different data centers and different technologies. We like this function.
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Anand_Kumar
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
The solution's existing SaaS platform for data integration gives us an edge because many other features' functionalities are available, such as real-time dashboarding and data analytics.
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Amos Okoth
Database Manager at State of New York
CDC is the most valuable feature.
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Arsim Kosumi
Database System Specialist at TEB SHA
This is a powerful tool.
It is stable and offers good reliability. The server never crashes.
It is quite scalable.
The initial setup is very easy.
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Steve-James
Cloud Migration Software Consultant - UK & EMEA at 1PLACE
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.
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Parwaz Khan
Head of Data Analytics at Bupa Arabia
The most valuable features of Oracle GoldenGate are the schema application and performance.
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Claudio Freire
Chief Enterprise Architect at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
The OGG CDC is flexible and robust but complex to manage. The OGG version with microservices is very important to us because we need to monitor and manage all the database sources. The current OGG monitor is limited to our operations and we built one for our needs using the OGG microservices.
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Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
With Oracle GoldenGate, you can easily sync the tables and put them into the ODS database. You can easily monitor and maintain the system, and it doesn't need a primary key for sync; it reads from log shipping and the table. Oracle GoldenGate is a good product for syncing the database.
Oracle GoldenGate is a good product that works best with Oracle. Oracle GoldenGate's monitoring is good. You can easily see the detailed logs, timestamp points, and status of each table.
Gaurav Batra
Managing Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I like that the product transforms data and provides real-time applications.
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Data Analysis Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
I am impressed with the tool's possibility of integrating different systems in a unified place.
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Application Enterprise Architect Lead at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The product's micro service architecture is scalable.
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OleksandrDenysenko
Technical director at RDTEX LLC
What I like most about Oracle GoldenGate is that it supports cross-platform migrations. For example, Oracle GoldenGate could pump data from one type of system to another such as the data from Oracle DB to SQL Db2.
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Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Many of the features of Oracle GoldenGate are valuable. We use Oracle databases and this tool is from Oracle, making it have superior compatibility.
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Database Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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.
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Pinak Sarkar
Senior Manager of System and Database at ESL
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.
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Amro Mourad
Senior Oracle Database Admin at mrcc
I signed with Oracle to use GoldenGate for this project five months ago. I needed two or three months just to explore GoldenGate to get to know it and the features. There are many awesome features in GoldenGate and from what I see in the case studies, I need some more months of discovery to know what I think are the most valuable features. If you call me a month from now, I will be able to answer the question as to which of the excellent features are the most valuable. Right now it would be that I have confidence that GoldenGate can handle this extensive project.
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Osama Mohei
Consultant at National Water Company
GoldenGate is a perfect product. It's very stable and can integrate heterogenic systems. I believe GoldenGate is one of the best Oracle products.
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Shawfat Thajudeen
Associate Architect - Oracle Database at Virtusa Global
Oracle GoldenGate helps to select and target specific tables for replication. Any changes or operations on those tables are immediately reflected in the source and target environments.
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AdelElhady
Senior Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oracle GoldenGate has a lot of benefits. You can use Oracle GoldenGate as a DR for your system. You can use the solution if you don't want to have unnecessary recovery using synchronization or have some restrictions, like character suit or limited use.
Oracle GoldenGate can help if you have only to replicate the subset of your data and not the full data. Suppose you are in an organization with many branches and are interested in replicating only the accounting and not the financial data. In that case, Oracle GoldenGate will help you with some considerations, calculations, and transformations associated with it.
Jon Davies
Director at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
It works best with Oracle.
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Oracle ERP DBA Conultant- Oracle Super Cluster T5-8 Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
GoldenGate can connect and collect data from multiple sources, such as SQL Server.
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Amit Mataghare
Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers
The most valuable feature is data replication capability.
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Solutions Architect Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is data replication. When we are replicating data between similar databases then it is straightforward.
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Nafise Mohammadbeigi
Data Analyst & BI Specialist at ABS SCANDINAVIA ApS
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.
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Ahmed El Banna
Fintech Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
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.
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DBA
You can put data together from a few databases into one database or the other way, from one database into several. It transforms data in real-time. In my experience, it is able to transform a large amount of data within a few seconds.
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Neil Chandler
Database Architect and Oracle ACE Director at Chandler Systems
It's the simplicity. It's very simple to configure, it's very simple to implement. In addition, the ability it has to capture data and transmit it with incredible speed is better than any of the product out there. It's extremely powerful.
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Gurcan Orhan
Data Quality Software Development Manager at Yapı Kredi Bank
Ease of installation, maintenance and powerful outputs and supporting Big Data and Cloud environment as well as OGGCS (Oracle Golden Gate Cloud Service).
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Technical Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
GoldenGate replicates in real time between heterogeneous databases such as SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Sybase and others. In the next few years, we plan to use Oracle GoldenGate to real-time replicate to big data and the cloud.
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Solutions Developer at a music company with 51-200 employees
- Replication by SCN
- Ability to perform basic data transformation/call user-defined functions
- Exception handling
- CDC capabilities when used with ODI
it_user1221
Database Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
This product is meant to replace Oracle's Data Guard replication. The setup is simple and it can handle bi directional replication very easily. Training cost is minimal and most DBAs self learn this product. replication between various types of databases is supported and software foot print is very small . Change trails are not very big and easy to manage and store.
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it_user837
Senior Manager of IT at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Data replication is seamless, once it is setup on a database. No triggers to setup.
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Armando Souza
Oracle Solutions Architect at Viceri
GoldenGate enables us to merge and transform data from various sources in real time. It's a powerful tool that can read and load most data sources.
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AnvarZhaxybayev
Oracle Advisory Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with multiple platforms.
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