SharePlex Reviews & Product Details - Page 2

High performance for database replication

Ease of use

Great customer support service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Software is not very robust, riddled with small software bugs that can affect business operation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used shareplex to provide a reporting database by reducing the load of our OLTP instances.

Technical support is excellent, the support team has an immediate response when question time comes around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we first started using it the change data process was actually stressing, sometimes the monitoring system sends out error notifications and it ends up spamming the admins with emails alert for no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my experience, Shareplex is fast, flexible, easy to install and configure, and easy to maintain. From my perspective, the conversion from Streams to Shareplex was amazingly simple and went very well. My feeling is that the overall experience has been very positive.

Streams Migration - I've worked with Streams for over 7 years and spent probably more time than I should have evaluating four different replacement products. With Shareplex, I found migration from Streams to be very simple. It was just plain easy.

Speed - In my own testing, Shareplex was significantly faster than three competing products that were evaluated utilizing real workloads.

Ease of Use - In my experience, installation couldn't be much simpler. Also, configuring tables for replication is also very easy for the roughly 2,000 tables configured in our environment.

Monitoring - We monitor Shareplex for errors using features built into the product. We monitor latency utilizing a custom heartbeat table to model the approach we had utilized with Streams. Both were very easy to configure based on my own experience.

RAC/Cluster - Our environment consists of several Exadata clusters. Shareplex seemed to integrate well with Oracle Clusterware and seems to support the built-in HA failover capability through the usage of application VIP's well.

Flexibility - Based on my own experience using and/or evaluating other products, Shareplex is among the easiest to configure when it comes to basic functionality such as: replicating to a different target table or schema name, excluding certain DML such as inserts, deletes, updates, etc.

Cruise Control - Based on my usage of the product, far less time will be required to keep it running smoothly compared to Streams. The way the product is configured out of the box to automatically retry operations that fail (maybe due to deadlock, etc.) and the type of operations that are excluded by default (but can be easily enabled), will require minimal human intervention. This is a big plus based on my own experience.

Conclusion - My opinion, as the primary DBA who evaluated various products, architected the Shareplex migration, and deployed the same, is that we made the right choice. I'm am personally very satisfied with our decision to choose Shareplex as our Streams replacement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My feeling is the enterprise monitoring dashboard (GUI) could be improved to match the experience with the product in general. I'd like to see this portion of the overall Shareplex offering be simpler to install, more lightweight, and easier to configure.

If I had to nit-pick, my personal opinion is that a few key areas could be explained more clearly/thoroughly in the documentation. This deals mostly with instantiation of new tables for replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is very user-friendly and it is easy to use. I really like how we can share information with other users via this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that this software has a downtime and sometimes when the server goes down for maintenance it can take a while to be back which can interrupt manager training and other work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The SharePlex tool has been used for Oracle-Oracle Replication in our environment & we faced a lot of issues while stabilizing the system in Production but the support we received by the Technical team specially Berta Rae was immense & helped improved the performance to a great extent as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The limitations experienced till now seems to revolve around setting up Bi-directional replication to achieve high availability for one of critical applications where the name of the primary database is stored in the memory & configuration of the fail-over script which would actually transfer the connections to the standby is the actual challenge faced from the application end as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle and SQL server.

Realtime, scalable, high availability database replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't utilized this software to it's full capacity to see what I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is easy to installed and configure. The documentation is well written. The Quest support is very helpful if you run into any problems. The software can be configured to meet a variety of needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In a testing environment if you are not running in archive log mode there is a possibility that your database logs can wrap causing SharePlex to shutdown. I can be a little complicated to get the system back up and running. This should not be an issue in a production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily configured.

Allows non-disruptive adding/removing of tables to the replication stream.

Includes monitoring/alerting services.

Includes data verification and repair utilities.

Low server overhead.

The most complete solution is in Oracle to Oracle instances. But they are developing and improving capabilities for transferring data to other DB platforms.

It is robust. It recovers well when there are network or other system or service outages.

Their technical support teams are terrific.

It is half the price of other popular solutions and it works! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has been very Oracle oriented. We could really use the same functionality with other DB platforms. They are working on it but it just isn't there yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best SharePlex features we like are:

* Upgraded to Oracle 12c with zero downtime.

* Data compare and repair feature helps me fix data discrepancies without having to reinstall everything from the scratch.

* Option to create independent multiple Post queues for large transactional tables.

* Dedicated & efficient Quest support team & pre-sales team what help me address my issues quickly.

Very good return on investment and marginal cost of ownerships is a key driver to stay invested on Shareplex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't like SharePlex limited functionality for non-oracle target databases (which is I hear is supported in the latest release). Features like missing compare & repair, DDL replication for non-Oracle databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stability.

Easy to Configure & Implement.

Covers most of the maintenance scenarios.

Terrific Customer Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Management and monitoring tools , if we need to go in hindsight if there was a replication delay thats not possible, multiple attempts to make Shareplex Manager work were not successful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.