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Cohesity DataProtect vs Query.ai comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (12th), Cloud Backup (13th)
Query.ai
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
23rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Security Analytics (6th), AI Security (119th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Query.ai is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cohesity DataProtect0.5%
Query.ai0.5%
Other99.0%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

Kalaiarasan Meganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist at HCLSoftware
Backup operations have become faster and daily recoveries run smoothly for on‑prem workloads
When compared to other tools, the deduplication in Cohesity DataProtect is very fast, and the restore performance is better than other tools. Global deduplication ensures that only unique data blocks are stored, significantly reducing storage consumption. Cohesity DataProtect's dashboard displays options and errors clearly, making it easy to access and understand how to fix issues. Cohesity DataProtect's ability to start processes automatically without manual selections enhances its reliability. Cohesity DataProtect's architecture ensures that agent installations automatically reflect in the dashboard, allowing for seamless integration into backup jobs. This improves operational efficiency, ensuring backups can be triggered without manual refreshes. Additionally, the user interface is intuitive, and the respect of the N-1 rule during updates helps prevent client-affecting issues.
reviewer2834415 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Query automation has reduced investigation time and frees our team to focus on complex DevOps tasks
The best features Query.ai offers make anything with queries much easier, and it ensures that it is very optimistically correct with whatever it is doing. It also delivers access throughout real-time and historical data, making it really quick and fast to act upon. The real-time and historical data access from Query.ai helps me in my work by allowing me to go through queries quicker, so even if there are errors anywhere, detection happens pretty fast. Because it is on automation and the investigation is done really quickly, it saves a lot of my time. Query.ai has positively impacted my organization by being very appreciative for what it has done and how there is lesser work task on ourselves, and we could be focusing on more things because as DevOps, we have a lot of work. The reduction in workload due to Query.ai has made things easier, especially every time we need to investigate why an SQL query is not loading or if it is duplicating. It is especially effective during access management to either provision or de-provision access for users.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"It has vastly improved our ability to save money by backing up and replicating our backups off-site."
"The change has been night and day."
"It has greatly simplified backups and recovery for our organization."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"Cohesity will save us money, time, and manpower."
"Old backup solution: Full restore of mission critical systems took around one day. Cohesity does this process in under one hour."
"Query.ai helps reduce costs and improve security in my organization, though I do not have the actual numbers, but the impact was significant."
"Time saving and accuracy are the main benefits; in my data mart and data lakes project, Query.ai has been very useful, with all transformations automated, which had a huge impact on our entire project."
"Query.ai has positively impacted my organization by being very appreciative for what it has done and how there is lesser work task on ourselves, and we could be focusing on more things because as DevOps, we have a lot of work."
 

Cons

"The error handling could be improved."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"We have encountered a few cluster crashes because of indexing on XFS file systems this should be fixed in 6.1.0"
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"Probably Query.ai could be a little more optimized, but it is good."
"Query.ai performs well, but there are other software options that do auditing a little better."
"I felt the pricing is somewhat higher."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."
"The ROI is huge. Not really measurable at this point, but the price of the unit was a fraction of what a couple hours of downtime could result in."
"Pricing, setup costs, etc. are pretty typical. The initial cost for Cohesity was less than other products the we evaluated. Cohesity's pricing does offer benefits as DR target costs are less than other solutions. You are not charged for DataProtect licensing for target DR data consumption."
"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The pricing model is impressive and very effective."
"The tool's pricing is average."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise43
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?
I want to improve the possibilities of the solution for containers and the mobility of containers. The container functionality is very limited at the moment, not covering the whole container. I rat...
What is your primary use case for Cohesity DataProtect?
Cohesity DataProtect is usually recommended for bank companies, insurance companies, and other energy companies. We are working with several of these types of companies, and all of them have Cohesi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Query.ai?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good. I felt the pricing is somewhat higher.
What needs improvement with Query.ai?
I think integrating some LLM would be good because nowadays AI has a very huge impact. Additionally, I think it would be good if you add Amazon QuickSight for the reporting functionality.
What is your primary use case for Query.ai?
My main use case for Query.ai is connecting to data lakes and data marts using Amazon S3. I have been connecting my data to Query.ai data lakes and data marts while doing some transformation, creat...
 

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