The Rover approach
Cold Storage. Hot Intelligence.
Traditional DAM makes you choose: keep audit data online, or keep it affordable. Rover keeps years of database activity searchable, attributable and ready for every investigation and audit.
Real identity behind every query
Trace pooled and shared connections back to the real end user or service.
Real-time enforcement
Alert, block a query or terminate a session when a statement breaks policy.
More searchable history
Search years of statements in your own object storage, without archiving or rehydration.
Compare the details
Ratings reflect Rover's assessment of public vendor documentation and may vary by edition, version and configuration. Imperva refers to Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF), now part of Thales.
Searchable history and data control
| Capability | Rover | Imperva DSF |
|---|---|---|
| Searchable history | Full: 30 days to 10 years, no restore | Full: 13-month base; archives searchable |
| Customer data control | Full: Your own object storage | Partial: Managed through the DSF stack |
| Long-term retention | Full: Included in the platform fee | Full: Through archive tiers |
Rover search speed at 1 TB/day: under 6 seconds across 30 days, 35 seconds across 1 year and 4 minutes across 10 years. Imperva states archived records can be searched in seconds.
Monitoring and enforcement
| Capability | Rover | Imperva DSF |
|---|---|---|
| Identity resolution | Full: Pooled connections traced to the real user | Partial: Tracking groups configured per database service |
| Dynamic masking | Full: Built in, real time, policy-based | Partial: Masks its own audit records; masking product is static |
| Enforcement | Full: Block, terminate and contain accounts | Full: Blocking policies and account deactivation |
| Detection | Full: Policies, baselines, full SQL on every alert | Full: Machine-learning risk analytics |
| Vulnerability assessment | Full: Configuration, patch and privilege checks | Full: 1,500+ tests |
| Integrations | Full: S3, HTTPS, SSO, Prometheus, GitHub | Full: 260+ built-in integrations |
Infrastructure and pricing
| Capability | Rover | Imperva DSF |
|---|---|---|
| Serverless search | Full: No search cluster or appliances | Not available: Runs on gateways and a central hub |
| Flat cost as retention grows | Full: Same fee from 30 days to 10 years | Partial: Estimated fees rise beyond 13 months |
| Published pricing | Full: Based on databases and ingestion | Partial: Private quotes; 1-month term listed at $10,000 |
| Monthly platform cost (201–300 databases, 1 TB/day) | $36,667 | Est. $232,200 |
| At 10 years of retention | $36,667 | Est. $303,600 |
Why teams choose Rover
Where Rover stands apart from Imperva
- Retention doesn't raise the bill: Rover's fee stays at $36,667 a month from 30 days to 10 years, while Imperva's is estimated to rise to about $303,600.
- Records and indexes stay in your own object storage and are queried in place.
- Serverless search, with no monitoring stack or search cluster to size and maintain.