Top 5 block-storage Open-Source Projects

Ceph

34 13,233 10.0 C++

Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

Project mention: First time user sturggles | /r/ceph | 2023-06-24

curl --silent --remote-name --location https://github.com/ceph/ceph/raw/octopus/src/cephadm/cephadmchmod a+x cephadm./cephadm bootstrap --mon-ip 192.168.1.41

openebs

7 8,646 7.4

Most popular & widely deployed Open Source Container Native Storage platform for Stateful Persistent Applications on Kubernetes.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
curve

1 2,222 9.1 C++

Curve is a sandbox project hosted by the CNCF Foundation. It's cloud-native, high-performance, and easy to operate. Curve is an open-source distributed storage system for block and shared file storage. (by opencurve)

Project mention: Google Cloud Storage FUSE | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-02

linstor-server

1 816 9.5 Java

High Performance Software-Defined Block Storage for container, cloud and virtualisation. Fully integrated with Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack, Proxmox etc.
elbencho

2 147 7.5 C++

A distributed storage benchmark for file systems, object stores & block devices with support for GPUs
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).