Major Differences Between Metallogix Vs ShareGate Migration Tools Experience

Let’s try to explore the major differences between the Metallogix and ShareGate migration tools experiences.

Here is a table, summarizing a few major points:

Features	Metallogix	ShareGate
Cost	More expensive and need deep understanding to use	Cheap and simple to use
URL	www.quest.com	www.sharegate.com/
Knowledge Base with Support Helpdesk	Average Experience	Very Good Customer Service
Overall Options for Migration	Dashboards, PS Launcher, Metallogix with Content Matrix Integration, Utilities through UI Sync or MOE Tool	Site2Site, SiteObjects to SiteObjects, Individual Permissions, Individual Lists/Libraries jobs can be run as per the business needs
Matrix Report	Utilities can serve this purpose on different aspects	Can run a Matrix Report
Technical Concepts	Works with seed jobs like Sites, Sub-sites, Pages, Lists, LargeLists, Permissions, Users, Navigations etc. which are developed on XML and can be tuned accordingly	Can run manually using simple Drag & Drop OR Powershell scriptings
Additional Options	Can copy (Ctrl-C) the workflow steps, loops, conditions, actions and Paste (Ctrl-v) them in the workflow but paste as text is not supported	Insane migration
SQL Server Studio	Can be Integrated. Supports SQL DB detach and attach method too.	Can’t be integrated with SQL Studio and related DBs
Preference	When Complexity is High	When Complexity is Low/Medium
Migration Speed	25-30 GB/Hr	10 GB/Hr
Scanning Speed	30-35 GB/Hr	15 GB/Hr
PreScan Checking option	UI Sync Tool based Utilities serve this purpose of scanning	PreScan Report functionality available

Some common functionality for the above Migration Tools are as listed as here,

Note

To learn more about the ShareGate Migration Tool please go through my previous blogs:

Thanks for reading, I hope this was helpful to you!

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