Cohesity Data Cloud vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Cohesity and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.5, while Oracle is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.3. Cohesity holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Cohesity Data Cloud

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Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Oracle Data Guard and Cohesity Data Cloud are two distinct solutions for data protection and management, each offering unique advantages and disadvantages. Cohesity Data Cloud seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and flexibility.

Features: Oracle Data Guard offers robust disaster recovery capabilities, seamless data replication, and high performance. Cohesity Data Cloud provides versatile data management features such as backup, recovery, and cloud integration, and is seen as innovative by users.

Room for Improvement: Users indicate Oracle Data Guard needs better documentation, more straightforward configuration processes, and enhanced support for diverse data formats. For Cohesity Data Cloud, feedback highlights the need for improved UI performance, enhanced support for more diverse data formats, and better scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard’s deployment model is complex, requiring extensive initial setup and ongoing maintenance with moderate customer support. Cohesity Data Cloud has a relatively simplified deployment process and responsive customer service, making it more accessible to users.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard generally has a higher setup cost, yet delivers a solid return on investment due to its high performance and reliability. Cohesity Data Cloud offers more competitive pricing with significant ROI through its broader feature set that appeals to diverse user needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity Data Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

17th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (15th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (3rd)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Cohesity Data Cloud	0.5%
Other	98.6%

Backup and Recovery

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Shiva Kinnera

Technical Lead at Cognizant

Support and connection issues affect user experience

I currently work at TCS in a different domain using AWS and Azure cloud backup. I switched from Cognizant to TCS four months ago, where I previously used Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity tools. I prefer Cohesity Data Cloud over AWS. While cloud functionality is similar across platforms, Cohesity Data Cloud's console, options, and web console are superior to AWS. The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud depends on the data volume and retention period. Compared to alternatives, Cohesity Data Cloud is somewhat expensive. Regarding technical aspects, connection issues need to be addressed promptly. I would rate it eight out of ten, as these issues require immediate resolution to meet client requirements. Overall review rating: 9/10.

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Azhagupandi Parthiban

Vice President Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers near-real-time replication for data consistency and continuously introducing new features through upgrades

There are various advantages. First of all, easy to deploy. The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. In other ways, the implementation is very, very important. Like, we have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product. Once you configure it, it goes through the rollback, and then Data Guard introduces this snapshot thing. So once the restoration happens, we can go back to the original thing, and we make that a standard. It's a pretty decent and key function for Oracle. So, enterprise organizations go for Oracle only for features like these.

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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

"I rate the Cohesity Data Cloud solution a ten out of ten. It's an easy-to-use product that provides substantial value and security."

"My favorite feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is the setup, as it is very fast compared to other solutions; I have worked in different clouds, and Cohesity Data Cloud stands out as superior."

"We use Cohesity Helios primarily in our data management strategy for backup and reporting."

"It has excellent integration for virtualization, which means we can easily protect VMs, virtual machines, which consists mainly of snapshot backups that are quite easy to recover."

"One of the most outstanding features is forever incremental, which provides immutable backups."

"My favorite feature of Cohesity Data Cloud is the setup, as it is very fast compared to other solutions; I have worked in different clouds, and Cohesity Data Cloud stands out as superior."

"The clone feature is very nice. You can restore workloads onto Cohesity's storage, which is also nice to have when you don't have enough space to restore on the server."

"The hyper-converged architecture and scalability are hugely important for growing service companies."

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"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."

"The solution is really very stable. One good thing about it, compared to other products, is that you can just run it and forget about it. Unless you come across some interruptions in the network, it works like a charm."

"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."

"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."

"We have found the replication feature the most useful. We use this feature the most. The ability to recover a database with less effort and the use of Oracle Data Guard Broker to administer the complete environment are also very useful features."

"The solution can scale as needed."

"The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test it, and then revert it back to the original state without needing to restore the complete database from the primary data center to the disaster recovery."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs, glitches, or crashes. We find it to be quite reliable."

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Cons

"They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents."

"The downside of Cohesity Data Cloud is that it is not supporting a legacy environment."

"The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions."

"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."

"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment."

"The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth."

"The only concern I have with cloud implementation is that if you have a presence on-premises, trying to use the cloud may become a performance challenge."

"Their documentation portal is not up to date for newer releases and I strongly recommend Cohesity to increase their efforts on the documentation portal."

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"The database administration needs improvement. With Oracle, we have a lot of features for administrating data, but it might be too many. It needs to be simplified. It should be automated. Looking at Enterprise Manager, there are too many KPIs in place."

"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."

"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."

"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."

"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."

"The IP implementation and maintenance are a little bit hard to manage across Oracle solutions, including Oracle Data Guard."

"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Regarding pricing, it's very costly and I rate it a four."

"Competing products sometimes use deceptive marketing to make their products seem a lot cheaper. Comparing apples-to-apples, DataPlatform wins out."

"It's priced properly for the market."

"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"The cost is expensive."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

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

The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud is good. Comparatively, compared to IBM and Commvault, Cohesity Data Cloud offers the best deal for my environment.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?

They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents. As we have many snapshots which are agentless, we know that for recovery, for instance, if you want to do file recovery, an agent is...

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What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?

The usual use cases are mainly for VMware-related backups and Nutanix backups. We have some physical servers where we perform backups and restores. It's physical as well as virtual, but mainly virt...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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Also Known As

Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios

Active Data Guard

Overview

Consolidate your backups, file shares, object stores and data for dev/test and analytics on a web-scale data management platform.

Cohesity

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

Oracle

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