Cohesity Data Cloud vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Cohesity and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Cohesity is ranked #39 with an average rating of 8.7, while Oracle is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.3. Cohesity holds a 0.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% 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

39th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (35th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (6th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AmarpreetSingh

Technical Architect at Wipro Limited

Offers improved data protection and security with indirect ROI

The pricing of the Cloud is on the higher side, and it should be cost-effective enough to compete with native solutions. Currently, Cohesity Cloud seems very costly compared to native backups. Although this is an emerging tool and there is room for growth, it needs to mature further. There is an AI feature, however, it is still in the development phase and requires substantial improvements.

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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

"It's very regimented and fast. It does local backup, cloud backup, long-term coverage, and disaster recovery."

"I find the most important feature to be data protection."

"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."

"It is easy to install and use."

"I definitely recommend this tool to others due to its simplicity, security, features, and flexibility."

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

"Its big data and archive data features are the features that I have found most valuable. I can use it in a big virtual environment."

"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."

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"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."

"The most valuable aspect for me is undoubtedly the failover capability and the assurance of data safety provided by Oracle Data Guard."

"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."

"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 can scale as needed."

"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."

"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."

"We use Data Guard for online replication from data center, to data center for high availability. This is the most important feature."

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Cons

"It has never been touted as a tier-one storage platform, and that would be a benefit. They are currently working on solving that issue."

"In terms of functionality, Helios has been effective, but sometimes it doesn't show the exact cluster name for backups."

"The limitation that I see in Cohesity is that the minimum sized node is 36 terabytes, which is more than a small customer needs."

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

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

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

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"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."

"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."

"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."

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

"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."

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

"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."

"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"It's priced properly for the market."

"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 licensing cost is significantly high."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"The cost is expensive."

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

"Oracle Data Guard is a feature available only in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and is available for extra cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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

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What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?

The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth. Reading data from the cloud can incur additional costs, ...

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What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?

The primary use case for Cohesity Data Cloud is to offer an additional layer of protection for backup data, which I can restore if needed. It is a managed service that allows me to set up and confi...

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

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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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Navis, 1st Security Bank, Brown University, WestLotto

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