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Alternatives to MooseFS

MooseFS is a fault tolerant, highly available and high performance scale-out network distributed file system that spreads data over several physical servers. Find open source and proprietary alternatives that serve similar purposes.

License:GPL-2.0
Stars:1,813
Difficulty:Medium
Pricing:Free
Hosting:Self-Hosted

Self-hosted alternatives to MooseFS

Open source projects that can replace MooseFS:

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
GlusterFS logo

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
Lustre logo

Lustre

187
NOASSERTION
Lustre screenshot

Lustre is the world's most widely-used parallel file system for high-performance computing, powering many of the world's largest supercomputers. It's designed to deliver the extreme performance and scale required for scientific computing workloads.

Key Features

  • Extreme Performance:

    • Parallel I/O architecture
    • Aggregate bandwidth scaling
    • Sub-millisecond latency
    • Concurrent client access
    • Optimized for large files
    • High-speed interconnects

  • Massive Scalability:

    • Thousands of compute nodes
    • Petabytes of storage
    • Linear performance scaling
    • Multiple metadata servers
    • Distributed namespace
    • Global file system view

  • HPC Optimized:

    • POSIX-compliant interface
    • MPI-IO optimization
    • Scientific application support
    • Batch scheduler integration
    • Checkpoint/restart support
    • Performance profiling

  • Enterprise Reliability:

    • High availability design
    • Automatic failover
    • Data integrity protection
    • Professional support
    • Disaster recovery
    • Monitoring and alerting

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Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)
Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)
HDFS is a distributed file system designed to store large datasets reliably and provide high-throughput access to application data. It's the storage foundation of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
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Stars
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Relative Popularity
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License
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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.
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Relative Popularity
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License
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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.
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Stars
6,626
Relative Popularity
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License
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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
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License
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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.
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Stars
87
Relative Popularity
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License
NOASSERTION

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