Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Cohesity SpanFS vs WekaFS comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity SpanFS
Ranking in File System Software
7th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WekaFS
Ranking in File System Software
2nd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the File System Software category, the mindshare of Cohesity SpanFS is 3.9%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WekaFS is 24.3%, down from 25.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File System Software
 

Featured Reviews

SM
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.
Roberto Telezynski - PeerSpot reviewer
It's really fast, flexible new technology and we don't have any bottlenecks due to speed
It's really fast, flexible and new technology. We don't have any bottlenecks due to speed. We can snapshot all the data to object storage and replicate it to another site using the object storage features. You can take as many snapshots as you want to back up all your data. There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want. Apart from snapshots of data to object storage, you can also tier the data, which is a different procedure. They can provide huge bandwidth or throughput to a single client. This is a very special platform for working with high-performance computing. You can use a server like a DGX or an NVIDIA and provide individual clients with almost 200 gigabytes per second. This is where PowerScale and Isilon have major limitations. We don't have such limitations with Weka. That's why it's been indicated for high-performance computing clusters. I'm very excited to work with this platform.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It has snapshot capabilities. We take advantage of those."
"There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want."
 

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."
"If the product included synchronous replication and VLAN integration, I would rate it 10 out of 10."
 

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."
Information not available
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which File System Software solutions are best for your needs.
816,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
15%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity SpanFS?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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.
What needs improvement with Cohesity SpanFS?
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...
Ask a question
Earn 20 points
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

SpanFS
WekaIO Matrix
 

Learn More

Video not available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Tribune Media
ZebraMed, Innoviz, TuSimple, Tre Altamira, IEX, iCarbonX, Mellanox, Spookfish, AI Singapore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Find out what your peers are saying about Nasuni, WekaIO, Oracle and others in File System Software. Updated: November 2024.
816,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.