Top 7 erasure-coding Open-Source Projects

seaweedfs

34 21,076 9.9 Go

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.

Project mention: DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File System | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11

Whoops: WebDAV:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417503
SeaweedFS supports WebDAV. https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/wiki/WebDAV
I'm not able to find if both/restic supports mounting backups as WebDAV, but in theory there's nothing stopping you.
It's 100% user space (expose a rest service) and supported by a bunch of file-browsers with a bit of a network aware component to it as well.

Ceph

34 13,259 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

InfluxDB

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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.
GlusterFS

19 4,498 6.4 C

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Project mention: Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-06

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/894
And apparently apart from modern coreutils using that, it is mostly gentoo users hitting the bugs in lseek.

cubefs

1 4,315 9.8 Go

cloud-native file store
lizardfs

4 946 3.3 C++

LizardFS is an Open Source Distributed File System licensed under GPLv3.
infectious

2 188 0.0 Go

Reed-Solomon forward error correcting library
bef

1 55 9.6 C

Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data.

Project mention: Show HN: Bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-09

SaaSHub

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

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).