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The last couple of weeks, for my own benefit, I have been looking at what products other then Oracle Lite do data synchronization between mobile devices and an enterprise database.  These products are:

• Sybase MobiLink
• IBM DB2 Everyplace
• Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (CE)
  

From those 3, MobiLink and Everyplace are capable of syncing with an Oracle database.  I looked at the documentation to MobiLink and it is pretty straight forward.  Everyplace’s documentation isn’t as clear as MobiLink’s.  CE’s doesn’t sync with an Oracle database, so I am not going to go into detail about that product.

Between MobiLink and DB2 Everyplace, I have decided, based on information I have read in the documentation and other users evaluation, that MobiLink stacks up the better of the two.  Now, what I plan on doing is setting up a small application, about 15-20 tables and synchronize those tables.  From that, I will hope to take away the following:

• Ease of development and complexity
• Performance and scalability
• Maintainability and schema evolution
• Troubleshooting and debugging

I will take that information and stack it up against Oracle Lite and compare those categories.  Look for a post on my findings soon.