DRBD Alternatives

DRBD is described as 'LINBIT’s DRBD® software seamlessly replicates data between servers, eliminating “single points of failure” within your IT infrastructure, no matter which applications are running on top' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DRBD for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and CentOS apps. The best DRBD alternative is Ceph, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DRBD are Google Cloud Filestore, GlusterFS, Litestream and Seaweed FS.

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  1. Ceph icon
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    Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

    27 Ceph alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Ceph is the most popular Linux alternative to DRBD.

    • Ceph is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DRBD.

    • Ceph is Free and Open SourceDRBD is also Free and Open Source
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    Google Cloud Filestore is a managed file storage service designed for high-performance workloads. It provides consistent performance, low latency storage operations, and can handle demanding workloads effectively. With Filestore Enterprise, there is a 99.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Google Cloud Filestore is the most popular Web-based alternative to DRBD.

    • Google Cloud Filestore is the most popular commercial alternative to DRBD.

    • Google Cloud Filestore is Paid and ProprietaryDRBD is Free and Open Source
  3. GlusterFS icon
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    GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system. It has found applications including cloud computing, streaming media services, and content delivery networks. GlusterFS was developed originally by Gluster, Inc. and then by Red Hat, Inc.

    19 GlusterFS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Litestream icon
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    Litestream is a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite. It runs as a background process and safely replicates changes incrementally to another file or S3. Litestream only communicates with SQLite through the SQLite API so it will not corrupt your database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • SQLite
    • Windows
     
    • Litestream is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to DRBD.

    • Litestream is Free and Open SourceDRBD is also Free and Open Source
  5. Seaweed FS icon
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    SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store and serve billions of files fast! SeaweedFS object store has O(1) disk seek and SeaweedFS Filer supports cross-cluster replication, POSIX, S3 API, ,….

    17 Seaweed FS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Seaweed FS is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to DRBD.

    • Seaweed FS is Free and Open SourceDRBD is also Free and Open Source
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    Elliptics network is a fault tolerant key/value storage. It was designed to handle all error cases starting from simple disk problems upto datacenter failures. With default key generation policy it implements distributed hash table object storage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. BeeGFS icon
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    BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. XtreemFS icon
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    XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. StorPool icon
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    StorPool is an intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs).

    41 StorPool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu Server
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Red Hat
     
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    LVM2 refers to the userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux. It is reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    DRBD is network-based storage solution, while LVM2 is strictly single-host non-networked storage management.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • LVM2 is Free and Open SourceDRBD is also Free and Open Source
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    Vitastor is a small, simple and fast clustered block storage (storage for VM drives), architecturally similar to Ceph which means strong consistency, primary-replication, symmetric clustering and automatic data distribution over any number of drives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. NetApp icon
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    NetApp Support provides information about Cases, AutoSupports and Fitness of your NetApp storage systems helping you to enhance uptime.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • NetApp is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to DRBD.

    • NetApp is Paid and ProprietaryDRBD is Free and Open Source
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