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Lustre is a parallel distributed file system designed for high-performance computing (HPC) environments, providing high-bandwidth, low-latency access to large datasets across thousands of nodes. Find open source and proprietary alternatives that serve similar purposes.

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Open source projects that can replace Lustre:

Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) logo

Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)

15,115
Apache-2.0
Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) screenshot

HDFS is the backbone of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, providing reliable, scalable distributed storage designed specifically for big data workloads. It's optimized for large files and high-throughput access patterns common in data analytics.

Key Features

  • Big Data Optimized:

    • Designed for large files (GBs to TBs)
    • High throughput data access
    • Write-once, read-many model
    • Batch processing optimization
    • Streaming data access
    • MapReduce integration

  • Fault Tolerance:

    • Automatic data replication
    • Configurable replication factor
    • Rack-aware placement
    • Automatic failure detection
    • Self-healing capabilities
    • Checksum verification

  • Scalability:

    • Petabyte-scale storage
    • Thousands of nodes
    • Linear scaling
    • Distributed metadata
    • Namespace federation
    • High availability NameNode

  • Hadoop Integration:

    • Native MapReduce support
    • YARN resource management
    • Apache Spark compatibility
    • HBase storage layer
    • Hive data warehouse
    • Rich ecosystem integration
Ceph logo

Ceph

15,085
LGPL-2.1/3.0

Ceph is a highly scalable, software-defined storage platform that provides object, block, and file storage capabilities in a single unified system. It's designed to be self-healing and self-managing, with no single point of failure.

Key Features

  • Storage Types:

    • RADOS object storage
    • RBD block storage
    • CephFS file system
    • S3/Swift compatibility
    • NFS/SMB gateways
    • iSCSI target support

  • Scalability & Performance:

    • Horizontal scaling
    • Automatic data rebalancing
    • No single point of failure
    • Multi-site replication
    • Erasure coding
    • BlueStore storage backend

  • Management & Monitoring:

    • Built-in monitoring
    • Self-healing capabilities
    • Automated recovery
    • Comprehensive metrics
    • Dashboard interface
    • CLI tools

  • Enterprise Features:

    • Data encryption
    • Access control
    • Audit logging
    • Snapshot support
    • Disaster recovery
    • Multi-tenancy
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GlusterFS

4,940
GPL-2.0
GlusterFS screenshot

GlusterFS is a powerful software-defined distributed storage platform that eliminates hardware and vendor lock-in while providing massive scalability and high availability. It's designed to handle diverse workloads from small office environments to enterprise data centers.

Key Features

  • Unified Storage Platform:

    • POSIX-compliant file system
    • Object storage interface
    • Block storage support
    • NFS and SMB protocols
    • Standard file system APIs
    • Cross-platform compatibility

  • Massive Scalability:

    • Scale to petabytes
    • Horizontal scaling
    • Elastic expansion
    • No metadata servers
    • Linear performance growth
    • Thousands of clients

  • High Availability:

    • No single point of failure
    • Automatic failover
    • Self-healing capabilities
    • Data replication
    • Geo-replication
    • Rolling upgrades

  • Enterprise Features:

    • Volume snapshots
    • Quota management
    • Access control
    • Monitoring and alerting
    • Professional support
    • Backup integration

More distributed-storage projects

Discover other open source projects in the distributed-storage category:

Kubo
Kubo
Kubo is the reference implementation of IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
ipfsp2p
Stars
16,511
Relative Popularity
74
License
NOASSERTION
Perkeep
Perkeep
Perkeep is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data with a focus on personal data preservation and long-term archival.
personal-storagearchival
Stars
6,626
Relative Popularity
28
License
Apache-2.0
MooseFS
MooseFS
MooseFS is a fault tolerant, highly available and high performance scale-out network distributed file system that spreads data over several physical servers.
distributed-filesystemfault-tolerant
Stars
1,813
Relative Popularity
8
License
GPL-2.0
Tahoe-LAFS
Tahoe-LAFS
Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system with strong security and privacy guarantees.
secure-storagedecentralized
Stars
1,335
Relative Popularity
6
License
NOASSERTION
DRBD
DRBD
DRBD is a distributed replicated storage system implemented as a Linux kernel driver that provides real-time mirroring of block devices over network connections for high availability.
replicationhigh-availability
Stars
618
Relative Popularity
3
License
GPL-2.0
XtreemFS
XtreemFS
XtreemFS is a distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system designed for federated IT infrastructures, providing POSIX compliance and geographic distribution capabilities.
distributed-filesystemfault-tolerant
Stars
339
Relative Popularity
2
License
NOASSERTION
OpenAFS
OpenAFS
OpenAFS is a distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support, providing secure, scalable file sharing across wide area networks with location transparency.
distributed-filesystemnetwork-filesystem
Stars
87
Relative Popularity
1
License
NOASSERTION

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