IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. IBM is ranked #51 with an average rating of 6.3, while Oracle is ranked #22 with an average rating of 9.3. IBM holds a 1.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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85% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Oracle Data Guard and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are competing products for data protection and disaster recovery. Oracle Data Guard has superior customer support, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus excels in usability and feature set, making it often worth the higher cost.

Features: Oracle Data Guard provides robust data replication, failover capabilities, and high availability. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers comprehensive backup, recovery, and snapshot management. Data Guard integrates seamlessly with Oracle databases. Spectrum Protect Plus is valued for simplicity and support for various platforms and is considered more versatile due to its broader feature set.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Data Guard users express a need for better integration with non-Oracle environments, more flexible configuration options, and increased compatibility. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus users want enhancements in scalability, reduction in backup times, and performance improvements in large-scale deployments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard is praised for reliable performance in Oracle environments but can be complex to deploy in mixed environments. Customer service is highly rated. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is noted for its straightforward deployment process and intuitive management but occasionally lacks depth in customer service support.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard is considered cost-effective, delivering good ROI with its stability and integration benefits. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, despite being more expensive, delivers higher ROI due to its extensive features and ease of use. Users find IBM Spectrum Protect Plus worth the investment for its broader feature capabilities.

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Oracle Data Guard

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

5.4

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is valued for integration, compatibility, and competitive pricing, with some users seeing quick ROI.

Sentiment score

1.0

Users praised Oracle Data Guard for reducing downtime, improving data protection, and cutting costs through automation and operational efficiency.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

4.6

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite concerns about initial delays and technical complexity issues.

Sentiment score

8.8

Oracle customer service experiences vary, with satisfaction dependent on support levels, regional teams, and access to documentation.

We do not have a good experience with this product.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

Their documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting articles, and support people are good.

reviewer1656648

Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Oracle has the best support and a great knowledge center with a lot of accessible material for users and administrators.

AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

5.7

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus scales efficiently from small to large enterprises, though optimal planning enhances its scalability potential.

Sentiment score

8.9

Oracle Data Guard is scalable, supporting extensive user bases and many standby systems, though configuration challenges in read-only environments exist.

IBM Data Protect is the scalable solution, not IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

AhmedSorour

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

The solution does not provide horizontal and vertical scaling.

reviewer1656648

Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.4

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is praised for stability and reliability, though some report recovery issues and version-related instability.

Sentiment score

8.6

Oracle Data Guard is stable and reliable, with minor network dependency issues, praised for configuration ease and robust performance.

I cannot determine what benefit IBM Spectrum Protect Plus brings to the organization because we deployed this solution with one customer, and that customer changed the product after one or two years because the product is not stable and it changes with every version.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

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For the stability of Oracle Data Guard, I would rate it as the best.

AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Room For Improvement

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs a user-friendly interface, improved security, better integration, efficient backup, and enhanced technical support.

Oracle Data Guard users seek improved GUI, monitoring, lower costs, replication, cloud support, and faster technical support.

It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling.

reviewer1656648

Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I used IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but IBM is now replacing it with IBM Data Protect, which is a giant product now in common development with a well-known company in backup solutions.

AhmedSorour

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could be made more lightweight and user-friendly in terms of GUI features to make it closer to a perfect score.

reviewer1541931

Manager - Storage & Backup at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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It could benefit from more automated features that notify via email if the disaster recovery or primary side fails.

AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Setup Cost

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is costly but offers flexible licensing and is valued for scalability and automation benefits.

Oracle Data Guard pricing is variable, influenced by features, organization type, and negotiations, balancing expense with cost-effectiveness.

They are fairly expensive.

reviewer1656648

Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.

reviewer1541931

Manager - Storage & Backup at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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Oracle charges additional fees for Oracle Active Data Guard.

AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Valuable Features

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers seamless integration, user-friendly features, and comprehensive data protection across multiple platforms and applications.

Oracle Data Guard provides disaster recovery with features like replication, failover, stable deployment, data integrity, and minimal downtime.

The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use.

AhmedSorour

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the software we work with, and the new name is IBM Storage Protect.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

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Active Data Guard is the most valuable feature. We use the secondary side for reporting purposes, which reduces the load on the primary side.

AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

51st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

22nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	1.1%
Other	98.0%

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AhmedSorour

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

Has provided straightforward backup and rapid deployment for diverse environments

There is reporting in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but I'm not very familiar with this area. I always concentrated on getting the customer to do the backup, restore, and related tasks, but there is reporting. IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect. The correct direction is Data Protect, which includes ransomware detection. With IBM Data Protect, you can add more servers for backup. It's scalable, which is a key feature over Storage Protect and Storage Protect Plus, even more capable than Veritas, because Veritas has an option to make different media servers. You can scale the backup process regardless of the load of the customer. This speeds up the backup and restore process for a complete data center, which cannot be done with any other product. I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 9 out of 10.

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AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Active data protection has ensured high availability and supports seamless reporting workloads

In my opinion, Active Data Guard is the most valuable feature. We use the secondary side for reporting purposes, which reduces the load on the primary side. Oracle Data Guard includes functions such as automatic failover, but we use manual managed failover. After some months, we converted our primary to secondary and secondary to primary. Oracle Data Guard is effective in minimizing data loss and provides a good solution for that. The main benefits of Oracle Data Guard include minimizing data loss during a production failure. It is used for maximum availability when paired with Oracle RAC, so if any disruption occurs, we have an alternative Data Guard to convert our load to the disaster recovery site. Oracle Data Guard maintains a high level of data integrity by using archive logs. When a transaction happens, redo logs create archive logs, which are then applied on the disaster recovery side, ensuring that both databases are synchronized.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is very simple to deploy for us, but for more clients or competitors, the solution is hard to deploy and to integrate. For our team, deployment of IBM Spectrum Protect Plu...

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What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

We are an IT integrator and we need to have a good vision of all recovery and backup recovery solutions. Most frequently, we use Veeam Backup. We use Cohesity. For some old workloads, we use IBM TS...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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Overview

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

IBM

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

Oracle

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