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Comparison

Cohesity vs DRBD

No leader: the top candidate DRBD has only 0.06 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Cohesity32
DRBD49
Score
vioscaleAI score
Cohesity32 / 100high · 77%
DRBD49 / 100low · 6%
Pricing
Free tier
Cohesity✗
DRBD✓
Model
Price level
Cohesityunknown
DRBDfree
Starting price
Cohesity–
DRBD$1,000
Transparent
Cohesity✗
DRBD✗
Integrations
Count
Cohesity5
DRBD13
Security
Fedramp
Cohesity✓
DRBD–
Gdpr
Cohesity✓
DRBD–
Iso27001
Cohesity✓
DRBD–
Trust center
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Cohesity6 items
DRBD6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for disaster recovery. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Replication method
CohesitySnapshot
DRBD-
Rpo granularity
CohesityMinutes
DRBDSeconds
Orchestrated failover
Cohesity-
DRBD✓
Non disruptive testing
Cohesity✓
DRBD✓
Immutable storage
Cohesity-
DRBD-
Isolated recovery environment
Cohesity✓
DRBD-
Multi cloud target
Cohesity✓
DRBD-
Kubernetes native
Cohesity-
DRBD✓
SLA guaranteed rto rpo
Cohesity-
DRBD-
Deployment
CohesityDRaaS
DRBDHybrid
SOC2
Cohesity-
DRBD-
Iso22301
Cohesity-
DRBD-
Pricing model
CohesityUsage/per source server hour
DRBDPer workload

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Cohesity

A data protection and management platform that consolidates fragmented backup, archive, file, and analytics infrastructure into a unified, cloud-scale system. Provides disaster recovery, snapshot-based protection, and multi-cloud data tiering for enterprises and managed service providers.

Independently observed

DRBD

DRBD provides synchronized data replication across Linux servers to support high availability and disaster recovery. It integrates with cluster managers and virtualization platforms to maintain data copies and enable failover.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Cohesity

Usage-based

Consumption-based pay-per-use subscription model; customers pay monthly for services used

as of verify ↗

DRBD

from $1000/yrSubscriptionFree tier

From $1,000/2 nodes/year. Free open-source tier available.

  • Starter$1,000/2 nodes/year
    • Tech Guide for DRBD 9 and LINSTOR
    • Extensive documentation
    • Self-service community support
    • Repository access
    • Latest software updates
    • +2 more
  • PlusContact sales
    • All Starter features
    • Updates including new features
    • Next business day package delivery
    • Annual health checks
    • Email/phone support
    • +5 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Plus features
    • 24-hour package delivery
    • RDMA license for Infiniband replication
    • Performance tuning
    • Dedicated support engineer
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Cohesity✓
DRBD✗
Linux
Cohesity✗
DRBD✓
CLI
Cohesity✗
DRBD✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cohesity✓
DRBD✓
On-premise
Cohesity✗
DRBD✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Cohesity

5 total
  • Pure Storage FlashArray
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Pure Storage FlashArray//M
Independently observed

DRBD

19 total
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • OpenStack
  • Proxmox
  • OpenNebula
  • CloudStack
  • Pacemaker
  • KVM
  • RHEL
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
  • DRBD Reactor
  • NFS
  • Linux Cluster Suite
  • Ansible
  • Veritas Infoscale Availability
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • iSCSI
Independently observed
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