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KNIME Business Hub vs Weka comparison

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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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.3
KNIME Business Hub offers high ROI with low costs, ease of use, and significant savings, enhancing productivity and decision-making.
Sentiment score
7.0
Weka is praised for improving productivity, scalability, collaboration, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, making it a valuable investment.
The relevant metrics for return on investment, as we are using a free version, obviously mean saved time, productivity, and scalability for the company.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
The return on investment has been huge because it leads to greater collaboration between our scientists.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
KNIME Business Hub benefits from a strong community, offering quick help and valuable tutorials despite limited official resources.
Sentiment score
7.0
Weka's customer service is praised for responsiveness and community support, but some report slow responses and insufficient technical help.
While they cannot always provide immediate answers, they are generally efficient and simplify tasks, especially in the initial phase of learning KNIME.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
My mark for technical support for KNIME Business Hub is about a 7, as most of the support is in the community, and it is quite good because it is open source.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Technical support for Weka is very good, and I rate it a 10.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The customer support from Weka is probably the best of any company I have ever worked with.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
they were very good and available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
KNIME Business Hub is scalable, benefiting enterprises, though large datasets challenge desktops; expertise and open-source integrations enhance scalability.
Sentiment score
6.2
Weka's scalability varies; effective with resources but struggles with high user numbers and requires frequent fine-tuning.
The biggest advantage of KNIME Business Hub for me is that I can start with a simple workflow and gradually scale it into an organization-wide solution, and it works.
Project Manager at Ministry of Finance
Scalability for Weka refers to the ability to expand, the ability to increase the number of users, and the ability to increase the amount of data, among other factors.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Weka struggles with large data sets imported into it.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Weka is amazing in terms of scalability because we can scale at any time as long as we have the machinery.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
KNIME Business Hub is stable with high ratings, occasional performance issues, and an active community for support.
Sentiment score
7.8
Weka is stable but requires accurate predictor selection and resources; improvements in performance, visualization, and documentation are needed.
For now, KNIME Business Hub is excellent for me and for our team.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
From 1 to 10, I would rate the stability of KNIME Business Hub quite good, around an 8 or 9.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

KNIME Business Hub needs improvements in features, documentation, scalability, integrations, marketing, licensing, and user support for increased engagement.
Weka needs better package management, Python integration, improved scalability, and user-friendly features for enhanced performance and usability.
I would like to see additional functions in KNIME Business Hub that can connect to generative AI, allowing users to describe the workflow for easier workflow generation and creation.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Computer vision is the most important because now there is a new age of large language models and visual language models.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
I think Weka needs to improve in integrating Python into Weka, which would help users much more.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Needed improvements for Weka would be the documentation and the ability to have zero downtime when upgrading the software.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users value KNIME's free desktop version and reasonably priced server features enhancing analytics team productivity.
Weka is cost-effective and accessible, offering both free and paid versions to suit different organizational needs.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Weka is that I think it's a fair price since we are using it academically, so it is completely free to download and use.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Pricing exactly what we would expect for this type of software in our environment.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

KNIME Business Hub provides intuitive, code-free data processing with ETL, machine learning, and collaboration features for scalable team analytics.
Weka's simplicity, powerful visualization, ease of use, and diverse algorithms make it ideal for data analysis and education.
Automating the processing of scanned paper records with KNIME Business Hub reduced tasks that would have taken hours or days to a few minutes.
Project Manager at Ministry of Finance
KNIME is more intuitive and easier to use, which is the principal advantage.
Student at ISCTE - INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA
KNIME is simple and allows for fast project development due to its reusability.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
Weka processes a large set of data sets without needing to write any type of code.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Weka is incredibly easy to use because there is a web UI that allows us to create and resize file systems at will, making different directory structures available to different users at any given time, and the speed is exceptional.
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Weka is very easy to use, is very complete, and provides many benefits to the end user.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

KNIME Business Hub
Ranking in Data Mining
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (3rd)
Weka
Ranking in Data Mining
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of KNIME Business Hub is 10.4%, down from 22.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weka is 7.2%, down from 15.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
KNIME Business Hub10.4%
Weka7.2%
Other82.4%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

NataliaRaffo - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Workflow automation has accelerated advanced analytics and machine learning delivery
Sometimes it is a little bit difficult to use some nodes when we have many large-scale data, for example, CSV files with a large amount of data. It is sometimes difficult to try to import the data in KNIME Business Hub nodes because I think that some features that are in the CSV in text, for example, large text, is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to import these fields. I don't know why, but it is very difficult. We need to try to use different nodes for importing the data, such as File Reader and CSV Reader. However, I think that it is always the features that have much text, it is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to understand and import this information. I don't know why, or maybe I don't know if we don't know what the better option is to configure the node to import all the CSV or the data set. However, we have always had this problem. In some nodes, sometimes it is the same because sometimes, for example, I have a CSV and in my CSV, I have a feature that is, for example, a date. When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text, for example. We try to use their nodes that convert text to date, but sometimes it is difficult, and it is not immediate to transform the text into a date. So we needed to convert the text into a date in the CSV, and then import it again in the KNIME Business Hub node and try to have a good read of this field. I know that KNIME Business Hub has some nodes to convert text to date and others, but sometimes it is difficult to use these nodes. I don't know why. Maybe it needs a specific format for the date and we need to transform our feature in this option. So sometimes it is a large process to convert these features. However, sometimes we need to investigate and search for other nodes, and try with other nodes to import these cases.
JK
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
High-speed shared storage has accelerated AI research workflows and supports massive job queues
The best features Weka offers are high speed, exceptional performance, and reliability. It is probably the best file system I have ever used. These features have helped my workflows and users by enabling us to train and perform inferencing of AI workflows of proteins against target diseases, which allows us to run jobs in approximately half the time that we would with slower storage. Weka is always available, incredibly reliable, and backed up, so we could not do this work without it. Additionally, Weka is incredibly easy to use because there is a web UI that allows us to create and resize file systems at will, making different directory structures available to different users at any given time, and the speed is exceptional. Weka has positively impacted my organization because we previously had NFS, which would take down the cluster when under high load. Now we have no concerns about highly loaded multiple thousands of jobs running simultaneously against this file system. The system handles it without any issues. To share more about the scale, we have anywhere between 1,000 to 10,000 jobs in the queue at any given time, and the system handles it without any problems. Our volumes are approximately half a petabyte on one system and about a third of a petabyte on another system for various storage uses, and it enables all our work to go efficiently.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Educational Organization
15%
University
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise35
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for KNIME?
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with KNIME?
KNIME Business Hub could be improved by making the user experience more intuitive, especially for users who are new to data analytics. More guided features and documentation would be beneficial.
What is your primary use case for KNIME?
I automated the processing of paper-based data by digitalizing scanned documents and creating a KNIME Business Hub workflow that transforms the data into an analysis-ready format, reducing a manual...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Weka?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that we have received very good terms, and the setup cost and licensing have been easy to implement, with pricing exactly what we woul...
What needs improvement with Weka?
Weka can be improved in terms of not having to reboot nodes when operator versions need to be changed, but they are working toward that. Documentation tends to lag and is sometimes inaccurate, but ...
What is your primary use case for Weka?
My main use case for Weka is providing a high-speed shared file system on converged infrastructure. A specific example of how I use Weka for this shared file system is that we host user home direct...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

KNIME Analytics Platform
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Sample Customers

Infocom Corporation, Dymatrix Consulting Group, Soluzione Informatiche, MMI Agency, Estanislao Training and Solutions, Vialis AG
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