Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System

• Freenet

  78 1,031 9.5 Java

  Freenet REference Daemon

  

  Minus the cryptocurrency part, Freenet has been doing this for 22 years https://freenetproject.org/

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• ipfs-embed

  2 360 2.2 Rust

  A small embeddable ipfs implementation

  

  In recent years there has been a large growth of alternative IPFS implementations. Partly because of different needs, partly because of unhappiness with the performance and reliability of the go-ipfs implementation.

  At my previous company actyx.com we wrote our own ipfs implementation in rust called ipfs-embed ( https://github.com/ipfs-rust/ipfs-embed ) that serves as the storage for our distributed event sourcing system. It is used in production and is reliable.

  The user of an Actyx deployment will not notice in any way that they are using ipfs in the background.

  There are also some other interesting developments involving ipfs and rust. See a list of implementations here:

  https://docs.ipfs.tech/basics/ipfs-implementations/

• bee

  44 1,457 9.3 Go

  Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.

  

  There is a project called Swarm that does exactly this.

  https://www.ethswarm.org

  (Disclosure: I am working on the project)

• ipfs-cluster

  14 1,489 7.9 Go

  Pinset orchestration for IPFS

  

• lotus

  11 2,855 9.9 Go

  Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go

  

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