Cohesity SpanFS vs WekaFS comparison

Cohesity and WekaIO are both solutions in the File System Software category. Cohesity is ranked #7 with an average rating of 10.0, while WekaIO is ranked #2. Cohesity holds a 3.9% mindshare in FSS, compared to WekaIO’s 24.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of WekaIO users are willing to recommend the solution.

Cohesity SpanFS

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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

WekaFS

Ranking in File System Software

2nd

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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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 WekaFS is 24.4%, down from 24.7% 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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Roberto Telezynski

Solutions Architect - Senior at Storageone

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.

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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."

"There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want."

Cons

"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."

"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."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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What do you like most about Cohesity SpanFS?

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

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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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Also Known As

SpanFS

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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.

WekaIO Matrix is the world's fastest shared file system that delivers flash performance at cloud scale and economics. The software runs on any Intel-x86 based server hardware infrastructure on-premises or in the cloud.

Sample Customers

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