Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux

LizardFS is described as 'Distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available file system. It allows users to combine disk space located on many servers into a single name space which is visible on Unix-like and Windows systems in the same way as other file systems' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to LizardFS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and Web-based apps. The best LizardFS alternative is Ceph, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LizardFS are GlusterFS, Seaweed FS, Google Cloud Filestore and Kadalu Storage.
Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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