BMC AMI DevX vs Nutanix Database Service comparison

BMC and Nutanix are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. BMC is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.7, while Nutanix is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8. BMC holds a 2.1% mindshare in DDM, compared to Nutanix’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 14, 2025

BMC AMI DevX and Nutanix Database Service are key players in the technology domain, offering distinct advantages tailored to different user needs. Nutanix Database Service has the upper hand in user satisfaction, attributed to its advanced features despite higher costs.

Features: BMC AMI DevX is recognized for its debugging capabilities, source control management, and tools that simplify mainframe management and empower developers in deployment processes. Nutanix Database Service shines in automation and management across various database environments with noteworthy features like the Time Machine for hassle-free backup and recovery, simplified deployment processes, and efficient resource utilization.

Room for Improvement: BMC AMI DevX can enhance its documentation clarity and installation simplicity, and improve integration with non-mainframe environments. It also faces challenges related to licensing complexity. Nutanix Database Service has room to strengthen its cost structure, scaling, integration with multiple database providers, and GUI simplification, alongside improvements in log management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BMC AMI DevX primarily offers on-premises deployment with some cloud support, combined with highly rated technical support known for its responsiveness and expertise. Nutanix Database Service provides deployment flexibility across public, private, and hybrid clouds, with swift response times in customer service, although some replies might need follow-up updates.

Pricing and ROI: BMC AMI DevX is seen as cost-effective with transparent pricing that accelerates ROI by enhancing development cycles. Nutanix Database Service, while criticized for its high costs and complex licensing, offers beneficial time-saving features that contribute to its overall value, despite possibly limiting widespread adoption.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Database Development and Management

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (7th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (6th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (6th)

Nutanix Database Service

Ranking in Database Development and Management

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 2.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Database Service is 2.5%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Database Service	2.5%
BMC AMI DevX	2.1%
Other	95.4%

Database Development and Management

Featured Reviews

RobertSamson

Technical Consultant at Services Robert Samson SCRS

Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization

Using BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on z/OS has greatly improved our database administration tasks. Although we don't test the database before production, we have experienced benefits in disaster recovery situations and capacity management. For instance, when facing capacity issues during peak transaction times, I've been able to quickly allocate additional resources to ensure smooth operations. This has been crucial, especially during times when the demand surges, such as peak flight hours.

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Jason Posner

Lead Systems Administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Improves time management by reducing database provisioning time

The feature I appreciate the most in Nutanix Database Service is the Time Machine. The simplicity of the Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service and being able to have a point in time that you can go back to at whatever your retention period is, is really great and helpful for us. The Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service has definitely reduced turnaround time for when we need clones or other environments spun up off of our existing environment, such as for corruption. It has helped the workload significantly. We're a very small team of database administrators. It worked really effectively for them and helped the workflow much more than our previous solution. Using Nutanix Database Service has reduced the time it takes to provision a database by 75%. The efficiency gained by using Nutanix Database Service has led to a positive impact on our business as far as bringing in new applications and workloads. Being able to clone and spin up other environments off of what we already have in NDB eases turnaround time when requests come in, and we're able to fill them and get them back to the business and make them available to customers. We've been able to automate DBA tasks. It simplifies turnaround time. Our DBA can deploy on how own and no longer waits for requests to be fulfilled.

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Pros

"The visual ability to see potential downstream impacts to changes being made assists our developers in understanding the impact associated with their change."

"Once we got the configurations and deployment rolled out, it was very stable. I haven't had any major issues with Eclipse or the Topaz Workbench plugins."

"From a user perspective, the GUIs make it easier for people to see and interact with files on the mainframe."

"We had parallel development before, but the way ISPW implements it is better. It has more control and oversight of the process, whereas before, it was like the Wild West. Everybody could have their own package with their own version of the component in it... ISPW is constantly aware of it. It notifies when someone else is using or has a different version of that component."

"Test data management capabilities are good."

"One of the features that the developers like is that they can retrieve what they need with the tool. They don't have to go through some process or request something be done by another team. They can get the programs they need, compile them, retrieve the JCL and alter the JCL if they need to, and put these programs wherever they need to go for their testing."

"I like the ability to flow through the source and see what happens to the data as the statements are executed. If there is a fault, it will track the event, and we can then look back to see why it may have caused the fault. You can also reverse engineer your test. You can set it so that you can go backward as well as forward in your test. This is something that I haven't done here at my company. Compuware Xpediter is one of the best debugging tools for mainframe software development. We have currently licensed only the COBOL language for Xpediter, but I know they have other languages, including Assembler, PL/I."

"It does our CICS NEWCOPYs and our Db2 binds for us, whereas before, that was a manual process. It takes a lot of the workload off of the operations folks and off the DBAs."

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"The business has been ecstatic over the quick turnaround time for any databases."

"There are a lot of options for working with the database."

"One feature that is very good is the backup and validation process that's built into Era."

"The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective."

"The benefit I see from the product in terms of its solution is that flexibility regarding where the workload runs is probably the biggest advantage with Nutanix Database Service."

"What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is the standardization and ease of deployment. It makes it easier for the database administrators to deploy without either the database administrator or the business needing all their staff and waiting a long period of time to have their request fulfilled."

"I like how easy it is to implement MySQL, SQL, and open-source database platforms."

"I wanted a tool that offers enough monitoring for everything related to load balancing in my databases."

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Cons

"Technical support has gotten better over the years, though there's always room for improvement."

"It would be good if the vendors would work together or at least have some collaboration between them, so they would know what would work and what wouldn't work. Right now, the way things are working, they're relying on the customer to make everything work."

"It's not as intuitive as it should be. In terms of navigation, there is a large training curve for using it. For a millennial it might be better, if they're used to Eclipse. But coming from a non-Eclipse environment and using Eclipse, though I have experience with Eclipse, it might be cumbersome."

"I'm always looking for improvement in things like the documentation, to make things a little bit easier and simpler to understand, a place where people can go to troubleshoot issues."

"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."

"The area for improvement is related to the testing tools that are available for unit testing or acceptance testing. I know they have some out there that we are not licensed for at this time, but it seems like some of the Eclipse tools that are used for other programming languages, they're all just built-in and they're a little more intuitive to the developers. Making those testing tools as intuitive as possible, and as integrated as possible into the workbench, would be really beneficial."

"I'm waiting to see what 19.2 for Topaz looks like, but I have a problem with the JES Explorer right now. It limits you to a certain prefix for job names and there are some groups that have multiple prefixes that they'd like to see all at once in their job names, because of how they work in a group. And they can't see that in the JES Explorer."

"It's a very complicated tool."

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"It would be helpful if we could patch Windows operating systems with the solution."

"The solution can increase its database compatibility and backup options."

"We are also overwhelmed with the quality of technical support associated with the product."

"The solution could improve by providing more support for more vendors."

"One of the things that we've discovered specific to SQL is that the deployment options that are available do not match our company standards, so we have asked the Nutanix team if that is something that is customizable or if we need to adjust our deployment strategy. That's the only thing that we've discovered so far."

"This solution could be improved by integrating with more database providers."

"We have a regular license program because it's really expensive."

"The updating of the database engine is something that can be improved. For example, assume that we are using PostgreSQL out of the box, and it is version 10. If we want to migrate to version 11, 12, or 13, then it is not very easy to do that using Nutanix Era."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"The only thing I would mention related to the licensing and/or the pricing, is that they have some visualization features in there that are licensed by concurrent users. We're starting to trip up on that. We're looking to probably increase the number of concurrent licenses that we have. But those types of licensing strategies, where they license by concurrent users or the number of seats is confusing for some people. They don't understand why it works sometimes and doesn't work other times."

"The price point is great."

"It has saved our developers time and effort when working on documentation, which is now more readable and fluent."

"In terms of pricing, there isn't an extra charge for the parts of it we use. It comes with the licenses we purchased for other products, so no complaints there. The licensing is built in with the other products that you purchase from Compuware."

"I like the seat-based licensing much more than MSU-based licensing, and that the cost has been competitive."

"Era is quite expensive. The thing that will be a showstopper for them in the long run is if you look at it from a technical perspective on what it provides and weigh it up against consolidation of multiple other software suites."

"It is amazing. The pricing compared to the time saved is nothing. It's worth the cost."

"Licensing costs will be the main scalability problem."

"Not everyone can afford it. It's a bit expensive, so the price has to be improved."

"I wasn't involved much with the pricing and setup costs and licenses. The pricing was as expected."

"Pricing wasn't a surprise. It was what we were expecting it to be."

"The licensed-based pricing is confusing and too high."

"The tool is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Transportation Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Compuware File-AID?

The product has made our mainframe data management process easier. It has helped us save manhours. The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to edit tape files. Its ability to clone files is ...

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What needs improvement with Compuware File-AID?

We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its...

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What is your primary use case for Compuware File-AID?

We use the solution clone test files.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Database Service?

It is amazing. The pricing compared to the time saved is nothing. It's worth the cost.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Database Service?

Nutanix Database Service can be improved by implementing more AI capabilities.

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Database Service?

Clients use Nutanix Database Service for various reasons.

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Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline

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Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a comprehensive solution enhancing code management and testing efficiency. It offers debugging capabilities within financial applications and integrates data management seamlessly, serving major banking sectors with reliable performance.

AMI DevX is tailored for banking industries, optimizing application debugging in COBOL and enhancing data handling in robust financial systems. It simplifies mainframe data management with real-time insights, improving efficiency through editing and cloning functionalities. The tool's integration with Compuware File-AID for IMS and DB2 ensures streamlined development processes. Challenges include a steep DB2 learning curve and initial setup complexities, with technical support inconsistencies and steep pricing impacting affordability. Despite this, its valuable features significantly support large banking operations.

What features make BMC AMI DevX valuable?

Line-by-Line Code Debugging: Allows precise identification and rectification of issues.
Variable Change & Line Skipping: Flexibility in testing without recompiling.
Database-Independent Testing: No need for loading databases during testing.
Real-Time Data Insights: Enhances decision-making with immediate information.
Data Warehousing & Analytics: Facilitates comprehensive data analysis.
Integration & Formatting: Streamlines development by simplifying data processes.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Improved Efficiency: Streamline data management and editing capabilities.
Robust Debugging: Effective in both online and batch COBOL program debugging.
Enhanced Financial Application Support: Superior handling in grants and loans applications.
Comprehensive Testing: Enables creation of clone test files for thorough testing.

In large banking sectors, BMC AMI DevX is integral for grants and loans-related applications. Its robust nature supports financial systems, offering debugging for COBOL, updating data in Compuware File-AID for IMS, and integrating DB2. Users implement this for exceptional data management and application reliability.

BMC

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) simplifies and automates database lifecycle management across on-premises and public clouds for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB databases.

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Sample Customers

Helvetia, The IMT Group, Hapag-Lloyd, Royal Bank of Canada, Chunghwa Telecom

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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