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Alternatives to MinIO

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution designed for AI/ML workloads. It offers industry-leading performance, scalability, and enterprise features while remaining open source under the AGPL license. Find open source and proprietary alternatives that serve similar purposes.

License:AGPL-3.0

Stars:52,956

Difficulty:Medium

Pricing:Open-Core

Hosting:Hybrid

Self-hosted alternatives to MinIO

Open source projects that can replace MinIO:

SeaweedFS

24,699

Apache-2.0

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system optimized for storing billions of files efficiently. It provides O(1) disk seek performance through its unique volume-based architecture and supports features like cloud tiering, POSIX compatibility, and S3 API access.

Key Features

Storage Architecture:
- O(1) disk seek performance
- Volume-based file management
- Cloud storage tiering
- Erasure coding support
- Data replication
- Encryption capabilities
Access Methods:
- S3 compatible API
- POSIX FUSE mount
- WebDAV interface
- Hadoop compatibility
- REST API
- Command line tools
Enterprise Features:
- Kubernetes integration
- Cross-DC replication
- Access control
- Monitoring support
- Cloud drive functionality
- Docker support
Performance Features:
- Fast small file access
- Parallel operations
- Automatic load balancing
- Scalable architecture
- Efficient metadata management
- Optimized for SSDs

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