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We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and QuickBase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The performance is good.""It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer.""The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage.""I have been satisfied with the stability.""It is a stable platform.""I have found Dell ECS to be scalable.""We face very few hardware failures.""It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."

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"The reporting tool: It helps in data analytics to provide the solution more efficiency.""Considering factors like functionality and price, the product proves to be worth the investment.""Creating applications in Quickbase will take, literally, a fraction of the time it would take to create them in other database applications (which shall remain unnamed).""The product is easy to use.""The need for little to no code knowledge has been huge.""There's a lot of stability in QuickBase...I really appreciate the processing part of QuickBase, especially considering how we're able to get information in real time instead of having to wait.""We have made good use of the ability in QuickBase to add multiple apps for various departments and purposes, while some apps are shared.""It provides a well-organized method for overseeing everything, especially considering the remote work aspect."

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Cons
"The solution’s stability could be improved.""The solution could be more cost-effective and secure.""The initial setup is not so easy.""Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers.""Dell ECS needs to improve its performance.""You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%.""Technical support needs to be improved.""We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."

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". For example, we need a third-party to create and save a document in PDF, MS Word, or MS Excel format. The document saving capability is probably the feature that we most often have to procure from an outside provider.""I would like the product to add more working processes.""The dashboard is not organized.""Whenever we do onboarding, or we get new employees, there tends to be a delay of not just a week but a couple of weeks, and sometimes even a few weeks of being able to see certain new employees in the system.""It would be beneficial for the QuickBase team to focus on improving the integration of cloud-based storage platforms within their product. In use cases like ours, where QuickBase serves as a centralized source of truth for construction projects, having seamless integration with platforms like Dropbox or OneDrive would greatly enhance the product's capabilities.""The improved developer interface in some areas can be difficult to use for complex items.""They could enhance the ability to link records between tables directly without the need for additional automation to increase space and time.""I would like to see the reporting enhanced because some of them are not easy to generate."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Dell EMC ECS is too expensive."
  • "We are not paying for the license at this stage."
  • "The solution could be cheaper."
  • "It's a lease-based model, so it's capacity-based. We already negotiated the price a lot, but we're still doing that with Dell because somehow the product was not installed successfully, so there was a lot of struggle in the distributor territory between Dell and the environment itself. I would give the solution a 6 out of 10 for the pricing. There's a little room for improvement."
  • "We initially purchased all of the licenses at the same time."
  • "The price of Dell ECS should be reduced."
  • "The price of Dell ECS should be reduced."
  • "The charges for this solution are made in blocks of models, which are purchased depending on what features an organization requires."
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  • "The pricing for QuickBase is pretty straightforward, It is based on a per user/per month licensing fee."
  • "We felt the pricing and licensing for QuickBase were easy enough to understand, fair and competitive."
  • "Quickbase is probably not the cheapest app out there. That said, it is worth its weight in gold. There is no other app that I know of in the market today that can do what Quickbase does."
  • "You have to negotiate the price because it varies based on the number of users you have, as well as how much cloud storage space you need."
  • "It is probably about 300 per license per person. There is just the licensing cost. There are no additional costs."
  • "The product is cheap when compared to other products."
  • "The pricing for the tier my company used included ten seats and the subcontractor, amounting to approximately $18,000 USD per year."
  • "The solution is expensive and geared toward enterprise-level clients."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of QuickBase is its dynamic form capabilities. These forms allow backend automation, making tasks like updating data based on specific conditions much easier.
    Top Answer:The pricing for the tier my company used included ten seats and the subcontractor, amounting to approximately $18,000 USD per year. As for data volume, there is a different pricing model once you… more »
    Top Answer:When learning QuickBase, I noticed a shift in its cost structure. It operated on a cost-efficient model tied to the number of users, with invoicing based on applicants. The recent changes have… more »
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    8.8
    Comparisons
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    Red Hat Ceph Storage logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    Microsoft Power Apps logo
    Compared 34% of the time.
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    Compared 10% of the time.
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    Compared 8% of the time.
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    Compared 6% of the time.
    Also Known As
    EMC ECS, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage, EMC Elastic Cloud Storage
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    Overview

    Enterprise-ready. Future-proof. Data-first.

    Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is a file and object storage solution from Dell EMC. ECS has been created to support both traditional and next-generation ecosystems equally. ECS boasts unrivaled economics, manageability, resilience, and scalability to satisfy the demands of today's next-gen, robust business enterprise ecosystems. ECS can easily be deployed in a software-defined model or as a turn-key appliance. ECS is software-defined and multi-layered for unlimited scalability. Every layer is abstracted and scalable with no single point of failure.

    • Data service layer: Provides S3 access along with access to SWIFT, CAZ, NFS, HDFS.
    • Storage service layer: Stores, retrieves and protects data.
    • Fabric layer: Provides clustering, configuration management, health monitoring.

    Everything is done within the software, which is containerized, using docker.

    ECS is currently deployed using basic commodity hardware, which can easily be federated across as many as eight different locations and managed as a single resource. Additionally, ECS can also protect data at the site level, locally, disk, node, and rack levels. The federation enables a single global namespace with everywhere access to content. Applications can quickly rewrite in an active/active or everywhere active manner.

    ECS is also able to be used as secondary storage or archival storage. This will free up valuable primary storage of data that is stale, redundant, or used infrequently, and the data will remain easily accessible. ECS uses policy-based tiering such as Data Domain, Cloud tiering, Isilon using cloud polls, and Geodrive, which give Windows systems direct access to ECS. Windows users can still use server message block (SMB) while leveraging the more expansive ECS storage.

    ECS is enterprise-grade and offers valuable features such as retention, multi-tenancy, metering, monitoring, quotas, and more. ECS builds in robust security from the ground up and encrypts data. ECS is compliant with STIG guidelines and adheres to SEC rule 17A-4F.

    ECS is an enterprise-ready solution that allows organizations to easily simplify object storage management and visualize information in intuitive new ways, and empowers your business to do even more with data. With ECS, enterprise organizations can deliver cloud-scale economics in-house that will lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and scale, creating greater levels of productivity and profitability.

    Reviews from Real Users

    One user, who is a deputy director at a tech service company, says ECS offers “good performance, reliability, and technical support”.

    Dell EMC ECS is “a stable solution which is easy to scale, install and manage”, relates another user, who is a senior buyer at a tech service company.

    "What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor," summarizes a system engineer at a tech services company. 














    Trusted by more than half of the Fortune 100, QuickBase is a low-code platform for building, customizing, and integrating custom business applications. With more than 6,000 customers and 500,000 active users, QuickBase is the technology of choice for organizations that want to empower business users to solve their own challenges while maintaining the governance and security of an enterprise-quality app development system.

    Sample Customers
    Atos
    Procter & Gamble, Tesla, Norwegian Cruise Line, Google, Metso, Agero, Kayak, PTC, Patra Corp, TomTom, Southwest Airlines, FedEx Office
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Mining And Metals Company10%
    Government10%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Government8%
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    Construction Company18%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Logistics Company8%
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    Educational Organization70%
    Computer Software Company4%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Insurance Company3%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business51%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise30%
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    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise72%
    Large Enterprise21%
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    Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while QuickBase is ranked 16th in Rapid Application Development Software with 74 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while QuickBase is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QuickBase writes "Reliable, user-driven platform, that is scalable". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas QuickBase is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Sales Creatio, Oracle Fusion Service, OutSystems and ServiceNow.

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