Cohesity SpanFS vs Oracle ZFS comparison

Cohesity and Oracle are both solutions in the File System Software category. Cohesity is ranked #7 with an average rating of 10.0, while Oracle is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. Cohesity holds a 3.9% mindshare in FSS, compared to Oracle’s 13.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2024

Oracle ZFS and Cohesity SpanFS are two competing storage solutions, each with its strengths and areas for improvement. Based on user reviews, Oracle ZFS is favored for its robust performance and advanced integration capabilities, while Cohesity SpanFS stands out for its simplicity and scalability.

Features: Oracle ZFS offers high-performance storage, advanced integration with Oracle's ecosystem, and robust performance, making it ideal for Oracle-heavy environments. Cohesity SpanFS provides ease of managing data across different environments, seamless cloud integration, and versatility for a broader range of applications.

Room for Improvement: Oracle ZFS needs a more intuitive management system, improved updates for compatibility with non-Oracle systems, and refinement in user interface. Cohesity SpanFS requires enhancements in real-time analytics, faster interface speed, and advanced data management tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle ZFS has a challenging setup process but offers excellent post-deployment support through Oracle's customer service. Cohesity SpanFS is known for straightforward, faster deployment and a responsive support team, making it more user-friendly in terms of initial setup.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle ZFS has high setup costs that are offset by its performance and integration benefits, resulting in a high ROI. Cohesity SpanFS is cost-effective with a strong ROI, justified by its flexibility and minimal maintenance requirements, making it a preferred option for budget-conscious buyers.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity SpanFS

Ranking in File System Software

7th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle ZFS

Ranking in File System Software

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the File System Software category, the mindshare of Cohesity SpanFS is 3.9%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle ZFS is 13.8%, up from 13.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stefan Motsch

Evangelist / CTO at FGNext / FGN GmbH

Along with offering competitive prices, the solution can be used by small, medium, and large businesses

While guaranteeing the strictness of the file system, there is a lot of performance involved. The performance is not as good as I expected. It's not the functionality here but the performance level. It won't be a problem if it's twice as fast. Even though its stability has room for improvement, I would recommend it to my bigger customers. The only problem is the current performance of the individual nodes. As a sale-out solution with integrated load-balancing functions, performance is in principle not a problem at all. Capacity and performance are linearly scalable over the number of nodes in the cluster. An increase in the performance of the individual nodes in future releases would be desirable.

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Rajesh Sudini

Associate Director at Optum

Enterprise storage system that offers consistent stability and data security

The replication capability and data security have been the most valuable features When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results. The RPO and RTO rates could be improved. We have been using this solution for three and a half years. This is a…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has snapshot capabilities. We take advantage of those."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else."

"Oracle ZFS is very fast and it is efficient. It has outperformed any hardware array controller that I've ever come across. With Oracle ZFS on my NAS, which is running five, four terabyte drives, when I've had a drive failure and changed one out, it'll rebuild that array in two hours, or maybe less. When you think you're rebuilding almost four terabytes of data redundancy, that's pretty good using an old AMD Turion hardware, that's nothing to complain about."

"The replication capability and data security have been the most valuable features."

Cons

"Its read performance can be improved. It is just slow in comparison to other file systems, but a lot of it also has to do with the fact that they have a limited number of spindles under each node."

"The only problem is the current performance of the individual nodes. As a sale-out solution with integrated load-balancing functions, performance is in principle not a problem at all. Capacity and performance are linearly scalable over the number of nodes in the cluster. An increase in the performance of the individual nodes in future releases would be desirable."

"Oracle ZFS does what I've asked it to do, and it has done it very efficiently. The only time I'm running into issues is with Proxmox. If I run ZFS drives, I find my RAM usage is very high. However, I don't have that problem with the TrueNAS system, where I'm running an old N36 Turion with four gigabytes of RAM, and that's running 24/7. There have been no issues with such a low-powered environment there, it works fine, but with Proxmox it seems to go slow."

"ZFS is great for just mass storage, but if you're trying to make fast storage – something like a SAN-type delivery network where you wanted to do any type of RAM disc over the network – it falls flat. ZFS does not do that. It is kind of limiting."

"When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results. The RPO and RTO rates could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I won't talk about specific numbers, but it is a little hard to compare it to other products out there because there is nobody out there that does exactly what they do. If you are just comparing it to another NAS box, it is probably going to look higher, but that's an unfair comparison because it does things that a NAS box can't do."

"When it comes to pricing, I know the prices because I am also running tenders for customers where I am not offering other solutions. Hence, the prices are pretty competitive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity SpanFS?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity SpanFS?

When it comes to pricing, I know the prices because I am also running tenders for customers where I am not offering other solutions. Hence, the prices are pretty competitive.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity SpanFS?

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What do you like most about Oracle ZFS?

It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else.

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What needs improvement with Oracle ZFS?

The question is, can it do a lot better? So for example, it could run an airline, and all the computer systems, but can it do it as effectively and efficiently as it could on other systems? No. Tha...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle ZFS?

My company is a team of developers and system integrators and we build cloud services for companies so they can pull stuff back from Google and Microsoft in-house to make it more efficient and use ...

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Also Known As

SpanFS

ZFS

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Overview

Designed to combine the best of enterprise and cloud stacks, SpanFS exposes industry-standard, globally distributed NFS, SMB and S3 interfaces.

The IO Engine detects random vs. sequential IO profiles, splits the data into chunks, performs deduplication and directs to the most appropriate storage tier.

SpanFS also includes a new Metadata Store based on a consistent, distributed, NoSQL store for fast operations at scale.

SnapTree® provides a distributed meta data structure based on B+ tree concepts. It supports unlimited, frequent snapshots with no performance degradation.

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance delivers leading performance and superior efficiency in enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) environments, accelerating business functions, and reducing complexity. This first application-engineered storage system provides unique integration points with Oracle Database which automate storage tuning and data lifecycle management, reduce capacity requirements, and lower TCO.

Sample Customers

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