Oracle Coherence vs. Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)

It literally all boils down to the budget a team has. Nowadays, even investment banks look for every opportunity to cut cost. Oracle Coherence is a pretty robust and highly configurable cache application that every team should use if they can afford. If they can't, then open source code is their answer.

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Workbench Enterprise is consistent across devices and users so far. It works the same, and access is easy. I have a problem with its security. If you use an enterprise password to access databases, it's very easy to click the show password on the connection page and expose the enterprise password. You shouldn't allow users to use the same accounts to access the database because that means all users are sharing the same password.

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• Distributed in memory data managment. Your data is near your data manipulator or calculator engine.
• Write behind, read through, write through concept.
• Fault tolerance and scalable.
• Continueous query, live events, map reduced aggregiation, extend client are few of the very good features I have used.

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• Querying is easy and quick.
• Updating tables is very easy.
• It gives us very accurate error messages.

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• Better documentation on setting up various use cases.

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• It has autocompleted, but I find it difficult to use or get to use.
• It doesn't automatically complete table names or field names.

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Oracle Coherence support team is responsive and knowledgeable. We contacted them to ask a couple of design questions about how we were setting up Oracle Coherence based on how we used IBM's Datapower Extreme Scale. They were able to guide us so that we got the design correct the first time and didn't have to go back and re-architect our design later.

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Our team does the support for us. Sometimes we see download related issues that can easily be fixed by our team. Most issues you will see with one user in your org will probably happen to others, so keep a log and track those issues. Then have a fix for them somewhere that everyone has access to. This will save you a lot of time troubleshooting.

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Coherence kicks Redis's butt when it comes to performance and feature set. However, it lags far behind in terms of market penetration and cloud readiness.

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• Better performance allows us to onboard more clients
• Decom few mainframes that were needed to handle lots of DB queries
• Better customer service with intraday calculations ability.

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• I personally like Workbench Enterprise, and I can do everything I need to do using it.

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