Percona Backup for MongoDB vs. PowerProtect DD Series

Percona Backup for MongoDB

PowerProtect DD Series

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Percona Backup for MongoDB	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. Percona Backup for MongoDB is an alternative for users who want a fully supported community backup tool, but do not want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. With its command-line interface, users can perform consistent backup/restore of clusters and non-sharded replica sets, and improve cluster backup consistency.…	N/A
PowerProtect DD Series	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small business and enterprises. PowerProtect appliances are separated into two categories: entry-level to midrange, and enterprise. Entry-Level to Midrange Backup Appliances PowerProtect…	N/A

Pricing

Percona Backup for MongoDB

PowerProtect DD Series

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Percona Backup for MongoDB	PowerProtect DD Series
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Free and open-source

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Community Pulse
	Percona Backup for MongoDB	PowerProtect DD Series
Considered Both Products	Percona Backup for MongoDB No answer on this topic	PowerProtect DD Series Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series Was easier to aggregate company files in PPDD than using Dropbox, for the way we organize our files for our techs and customers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We already had Avamar in place, and since we have a good ecosystem of Dell Solution suite and wanted to evaluate PowerProtect DD also from that perspective, hence we thought of going ahead with it. We knew the limitations with Avamar and PowerProtect DD were right there from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series I didn't pick the PowerProtect systems here, and until about 2 years ago was planning on moving away from them, leaning towards Veeam. Dell EMC changed my mind with software updates. The original interfaces were cludgy at best, not intuitive, and slow. The modern interface … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We have started moving away from our Veeam + Data Domain backup environment and are moving into the Rubrik backup system. This is due to the need to quickly live to mount our database backups and to be able to improve our automation of those activities. Also, the native … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Wiseley Senior Director of IT (CIO) Chose PowerProtect DD Series Dell's product is much better at large data sets and more reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Sam Majam Systems Administrator Chose PowerProtect DD Series Newer solutions maybe faster at backup and restores, but due to Data Domain's longevity in the backup arena and the wide array of platforms it can protect, we are happy with Data Domain for the kind of applications and systems we currently have in use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We looked at new tape libraries, mostly. At the time, Data Domain was pretty much the only game in town besides Exagrid, and I had previous experience with DD at a former job. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We selected Data Domain due to its integration with our backup software. The Data Domain works well for what we need it to do. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series I have used NetBackup, CommVault, Tivoli, and Actifio in my previous environments. With Data Domain I am not constantly babysitting my backup to make sure it is not choking and dying and we are not bound by the same channel lane path constraints most backup software and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series Prior to purchasing Data Domain we were a large user of HP VLS9000 technology. In using VLS9000 we were configured to use virtual tape. When we moved to Data Domain we greatly simplified our configuration by changing from virtual tape to NAS based target backups. This change in … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Percona Backup for MongoDB

PowerProtect DD Series

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Percona Backup for MongoDB - Ratings	PowerProtect DD Series 9.4 Ratings 10% above category average
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings

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	Percona Backup for MongoDB	PowerProtect DD Series
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User Ratings
	Percona Backup for MongoDB	PowerProtect DD Series
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Percona Backup for MongoDB	PowerProtect DD Series
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	When used as a backup target PowerProtect DD models offer incredible density and can efficiently replicate to another cloud-based or offsite unit. Most complaints about these have been addressed in software over the years and they are now a intuitive and easily managed backup system. You are not buying a Swiss army knife, you are getting a machine designed for a purpose, use it for that and you will not be disappointed. While they have the ability to serve as a CIFS server, they are not a filer and lack many of the features inherent to filers and are a poor substitute. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	It writes backups quickly. DDBoost add-on is very useful as well for improving backup speeds. DD is very efficient in its use of capacity. It dedupes and compresses very well. It spans to large capacity amounts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Depending on the model of Data Domain, there is a limit to the number of NFS/SMB threads that can run concurrently. When this limit is reached, the system is slow to respond to client requests. Data Domain support is very slow to turn out new features and bug fixes in their code. OS upgrades are very slow and disruptive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	DD has performed flawlessly for almost 10 years as our backup/recovery storage with offsite replication. Given its track record and great support from EMC, we're unlikely to look elsewhere any time soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Customer support has had some ups and downs here. We've had several issues with EMC support before and during the acquisition by Dell, but in the last 18 months support has been top notch. Quick and knowledgeable help is but a chat away, or they will call you back so you don't have to wait on hold. The team supporting us is responsive and is quick to assist with any request or issue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	We already had Avamar in place, and since we have a good ecosystem of Dell Solution suite and wanted to evaluate PowerProtect DD also from that perspective, hence we thought of going ahead with it. We knew the limitations with Avamar and PowerProtect DD were right there from that side of the business. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Positive: The high compression (58.0x) and data reduction (98.3%) have allowed us to optimize the storage for efficient usage. Negative: even after adding capacity, we are running out of space. Adding capacity adds to the overall TCO (e.g. lease cost). Incentivized Sam Majam Systems Administrator Read full review
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