Getting in touch with shareplex

Tuesday this week I had the opportunity to get in touch with shareplex, Quest’s replication solution. This product does not rely on Oracle licenses, so can also be used with Standard Edition. It is competitor of Oracle’s GoldenGate an used for asynchronous replication, too.
An interesting feature is that not only committed transactions can be replicated, which is an advantage with big transactions. With this feature replication latencies within seconds can be realized. Also migrations of big databases over operating system, character set and database release boundaries are possible with this solution. Quest mentions that costs are lower than that of comparable Oracle products.

It can be also used for reporting, high availability, distributed processing and load sharing.