Free alternative to aws s3

15 Feb 2016

There are many distributed file systems.

Some are AWS S3 compatible:

Ceph

Ceph with a REST interface that’s compatible with applications written for S3 and Swift, acquired by Redhat. Implement Object storage,block storage and file system.

FakeS3

FakeS3 is a lightweight server that responds to the same calls Amazon S3 responds to. It is extremely useful for testing of S3 in a sandbox environment without actually making calls to Amazon, which not only require network, but also cost you precious dollars.

minio

minio.io is Go cloud storage compatible with S3

OpenStack Swift

eucalyptus

Riak

Gluster

Others not:

MongoDB GridFS

suitable for small files <=16M

HDFS

Included in Apache Hadoop,rather complex and not suitable for small files

TFS

Taobao File system

seaweedfs

based on facebook haystack design paper

Reference

[GridFS]https://dzone.com/articles/when-use-gridfs-mongodb [Facebook Haystack]http://www.oenhan.com/haystack-tfs GFS