LizardFS Alternatives

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 Google Cloud Filestore, GlusterFS, Seaweed FS and Kadalu Storage.

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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 LizardFS.

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

    • Ceph is Free and Open SourceLizardFS 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 LizardFS.

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

    • Google Cloud Filestore is Paid and ProprietaryLizardFS 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. 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 Windows, Mac & Self-Hosted alternative to LizardFS.

    • Seaweed FS is Free and Open SourceLizardFS is also Free and Open Source
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    Kadalu Storage is an opinionated distributed Storage solution based on GlusterFS. Kadalu Storage uses the file system layer from GlusterFS and built a completely new ecosystem around it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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
     
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    Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. WekaFS icon
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    WekaFS is an extreme-performance parallel filesystem for Linux from WekaIO that works in AWS or on-prem on Industry-Standard Servers. WekaFS includes Enterprise features such as snapshots and tiering to S3 Object Stores.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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
     
  12. Quobyte icon
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    Quobyte is a parallel POSIX file system with block and object storage capabilities. It provides outstanding performance, linear scalability, and full fault tolerance.

    14 Quobyte alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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