Top 6 software-defined-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

MooseFS

3 1,584 4.8 C

MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)

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

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.
SheepDog

0 978 0.0 C

Distributed Storage System for QEMU
lizardfs

4 945 3.3 C++

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

1 700 9.8 C

DAOS Storage Stack (client libraries, storage engine, control plane)

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).