My take on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform

Rating: 6 out of 10

February 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Red Hat JBoss Data Services in the application server. It is being used by Java developers across the landscape of the company.

Pros

Good scalablility
Easy to install

Cons

Pricing
User Interface

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Data Services is a top choice for JEE applications. Even though lots of documentation is available, it's difficult in terms of usability. If the development is more based on Java applications it is a good choice. It provides better installation and integrations.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Uncoupling applications from data sources with JDV

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using JDV to abstract the underlying data sources away from our applications. Currently the primary use is to allow us some flexibility while we retire an Informix based system.

Pros

Data source compatibility: since it is Java, it can connect to anything with a JDBC driver.
Flexibility: you can configure it however you want, we have it configured to use LDAPS for authentication and have all interfaces encrypted, and setting that up was pretty straight forward.

Cons

Documentation: hard to navigate, or missing entirely.
Integration with Windows: ODBC drivers are not great, don't support SSL.
Logging: troubleshooting issues is not straight forward, often requires logging changes.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it would work well in a Java/Linux environment. It is not as suited to Windows/.Net.

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Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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