Oracle ZFS vs WekaFS comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle ZFS
Ranking in File System Software
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WekaFS
Ranking in File System Software
2nd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the File System Software category, the market share of Oracle ZFS is 17.3% and it increased by 115.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of WekaFS is 23.1% and it increased by 19.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

CA
Dec 12, 2022
Great for box storage; falls flat if you need fast storage
The question is, can it do a lot better? So for example, it could run an airline, and all the computer systems, but can it do it as effectively and efficiently as it could on other systems? No. That's where you start hitting things like you could store library congress on it 50 times, but does that mean that it's usable? If you want to find a book, do you want to wait a minute to get your results back or would you rather get your results back in two seconds? ZFS can always get the job done and it's reliable but it's just not always fast enough, and that's the main problem with it. ZFS is great for just mass storage, but if you're trying to make fast storage – something like a SAN-type delivery network where you wanted to do any type of RAM disc over the network – it falls flat. ZFS does not do that. It is kind of limiting. For companies or organizations using Kubernetes, multiple Docker instances, or the spin-up machines needed to handle the workload need quick media just for the host itself to be able to run things quickly, but ZFS does not do that. What's important these days is, as you run stuff as a cluster, you want to be able to replicate from one cluster to another, whether that's done in the background or is done in near real-time. ZFS just does not do anything of that nature. You have to use a third-party product or Ceph storage, which we use also. So that's why it's limiting from that standpoint.
Roberto Telezynski - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 10, 2022
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The replication capability and data security have been the most valuable features."
"It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else."
"Oracle ZFS is very fast and it is efficient. It has outperformed any hardware array controller that I've ever come across. With Oracle ZFS on my NAS, which is running five, four terabyte drives, when I've had a drive failure and changed one out, it'll rebuild that array in two hours, or maybe less. When you think you're rebuilding almost four terabytes of data redundancy, that's pretty good using an old AMD Turion hardware, that's nothing to complain about."
"There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want."
 

Cons

"Oracle ZFS does what I've asked it to do, and it has done it very efficiently. The only time I'm running into issues is with Proxmox. If I run ZFS drives, I find my RAM usage is very high. However, I don't have that problem with the TrueNAS system, where I'm running an old N36 Turion with four gigabytes of RAM, and that's running 24/7. There have been no issues with such a low-powered environment there, it works fine, but with Proxmox it seems to go slow."
"ZFS is great for just mass storage, but if you're trying to make fast storage – something like a SAN-type delivery network where you wanted to do any type of RAM disc over the network – it falls flat. ZFS does not do that. It is kind of limiting."
"When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results. The RPO and RTO rates could be improved."
"If the product included synchronous replication and VLAN integration, I would rate it 10 out of 10."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
University
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle ZFS?
It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else.
What needs improvement with Oracle ZFS?
The question is, can it do a lot better? So for example, it could run an airline, and all the computer systems, but can it do it as effectively and efficiently as it could on other systems? No. Tha...
What is your primary use case for Oracle ZFS?
My company is a team of developers and system integrators and we build cloud services for companies so they can pull stuff back from Google and Microsoft in-house to make it more efficient and use ...
What do you like most about WekaFS?
There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want.
What needs improvement with WekaFS?
The next release of the product should include synchronous replication and VLAN integration.
What is your primary use case for WekaFS?
I'm working on a great opportunity for WEKA involving about 17 petabytes of data.
 

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Sample Customers

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