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CartoDB vs ESRI ArcGIS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CartoDB
Ranking in Geographic Information Systems
4th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ESRI ArcGIS
Ranking in Geographic Information Systems
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Geographic Information Systems category, the mindshare of CartoDB is 11.5%, down from 17.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ESRI ArcGIS is 24.4%, down from 40.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Geographic Information Systems Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ESRI ArcGIS24.4%
CartoDB11.5%
Other64.1%
Geographic Information Systems
 

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Alan Bloor - PeerSpot reviewer
Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector
Highly reliable and adaptable, and their support is brilliant
On the whole, the solution is stable. I rate ESRI ArcGIS' stability a seven out of ten. I rate it a seven because they've moved to cloud-based technology, and if we've got a slow network, ArcPro could take forever to load up. That is a real pain. I had a meeting this morning, and we waited half an hour for ArcPro to open. But ArcMap, in the old days, would open in about five seconds. The solution is stable, but it can be really slow. If you do some extreme analysis, I'm working on between 30 million and 1.7 billion rows of data for the whole UK, and ArcGIS doesn't like it very much. I'm using an alternative because ArcPro would take hours and hours to do it.
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