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Commvault Cloud vs kCura Relativity comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in eDiscovery
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (5th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)
kCura Relativity
Ranking in eDiscovery
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 4.4%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of kCura Relativity is 5.6%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eDiscovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud4.4%
kCura Relativity5.6%
Other90.0%
eDiscovery
 

Featured Reviews

Ankit Gagneja - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.
HR
Legal Associate at Elevate
Easy to categorize documents and offers transparent view of documents
I found Relativity very useful because it's easy to categorize documents. If you get more complex litigation, like around 500,000 or 1,000,000 documents, it's easier to categorize them in Relativity. So, it's a more powerful tool for reviewing documents. I haven't faced any problems using Relativity yet. I found it very useful.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They have a strong development team and are market leaders in the space."
"It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."
"I recommend the Commvault HyperScale X for its enhanced quality, performance focus, and data isolation."
"The solution is scalable."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"It's the leader in backup and archiving."
"Commvault can do everything for every operating system and application, whether it is cloud-based, like Office 365, or not, it is possible with Commvault."
"Commvault provides data protection. Their engine is ransomware-agnostic so ransomware doesn't compromise our backup data. Therefore, we can rely on their data protection to recover and back up our production system."
"The initial setup was relatively straightforward."
"I like Relativity's blackout feature, as well as the Case Dynamics function."
"It is easy for a beginner to learn to use Relativity."
"There are a lot of ways to QC your work and save your searches, and we had really good case support from the Relativity team."
"Caplets are a very good technical feature."
"The solution has great searching capabilities, and it's very reliable."
"The searching capability of the product is definitely very valuable to our organization."
"The ease of navigation from dock to dock, and that kind of usability, is quite helpful."
 

Cons

"The product could be easier to implement, they could create a new console to configure the solution."
"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."
"I would like more communication informing us on what Commvault is doing in the background."
"The price of Commvault HyperScale X could improve."
"The price should be reduced because it is too expensive for our customers."
"The tool must improve the 1-Touch recovery of Oracle and Active Directory."
"They could work on the implementation of the features."
"When you deploy Complete Data Protection for past services, it's more complicated because you cannot directly back up from the previous service host. We have to build a proxy server, like a middleware, to directly access the past database server. It's complex and hard for beginners to figure out."
"I think there is a lot of room for improvement because we have encountered a lot of bugs especially on the development side."
"What I dislike about Relativity is that we have to go through the host in order to do productions and loads. It is not a do-it-yourself tool."
"The platform's integration of advanced AI features could further enhance its capabilities."
"There are a lot of bugs on the development side."
"I think RelativityOne, because it is so powerful, can be very difficult to use and there's a lot that can go wrong if you don't know how to use it."
"I haven't seen anything on AI merging with Relativity."
"The price per user could be improved. We'd like for it to be more affordable."
"You are charged per user. It can get pretty expensive if you have a lot of users in your organization."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everyone else offers the subscription-based model nowadays, while Commvault Complete Data Protection still has the traditional license model, where you must buy a set of licenses. You pay for one hundred licenses even if you only use fifty virtual machines, so the licensing model needs improvement."
"Compared to other competitors and vendors the pricing is fair."
"Licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis."
"The pricing has improved. It is simplified compared to the way that it was a few years ago. It is fairly straightforward and pretty easy to articulate to customers, which is handy."
"The tool is cost-effective."
"The solution is worth the money."
"It is cheaper than Veeam."
"The product is very competitive for pricing in some countries because it is possible to set up Commvault hardware with other vendors using its certification."
"The pricing is extremely complicated."
"Users are typically charged a fee per user account and a separate fee based on the amount of data processed and hosted."
"They are maintaining the per gigabyte pricing, and it's based on tiers of how much data you host with them."
"It's worth the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Legal Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatWise?
Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.
What needs improvement with ThreatWise?
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically rev...
What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?
I work with a variety of backup solutions including Commvault, Avamar, Rubrik, and similar tools. I am part of Tata Consultancy Services where we pitch all these solutions to customers from the bac...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for kCura Relativity?
It's expensive for an individual, but for a company, it's not expensive. And for an individual, I believe it's of no use.
What needs improvement with kCura Relativity?
I haven't seen anything on AI merging with Relativity.
What is your primary use case for kCura Relativity?
We use Relativity to code documents for their responsiveness, privilege, private information, confidentiality, and so on. We use it to categorize our documents into different categories depending o...
 

Also Known As

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
Relativity
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company
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