| Features | Quest | Competitor A | Traditional Storage Vendors | Recycle Bin | Native Tools |
| Granular Recovery | X | X | O | O | O |
| Disaster Recovery | O | X | | | X |
| Emergency Access to Documents | X | X | | | |
| Works with native backups | X | O | | | X |
| Works with leading third-party backups | X | | O | | |
| Requires proprietary infrastructure | | X | X | | |
| Search across multiple backups | X | | | | |
| Preview documents before restore | X | | | | |
| Restores alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views | X | X | | O | O |
| Requires site- and/or item-level backups | | X | X | | |
| Able to search live SharePoint 2007 Recycle Bins | X | | | X | |