Openstack Swift VS GlusterFS

Openstack Swift

Application and Data, Data Stores, and Cloud Storage

GlusterFS

GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system.

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Basics of Openstack Swift Object Storage

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An Overview of GlusterFS Architecture Part 2 - Non-replicated Cluster

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Openstack Swift and GlusterFS)

GlusterFS

Cloud Storage

15 15%

Cloud Storage

85% 85

Object Storage

47 47%

Object Storage

53% 53

Cloud Computing

8 8%

Cloud Computing

92% 92

Storage

13 13%

Storage

87% 87

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Openstack Swift should be more popular than GlusterFS. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Openstack Swift mentions (4)

What's the best AWS S3 protocol alternative?
By 'swift', he's probably talking about OpenStack Swift [1]. [1] https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Best way to store 1 BILLION images and keep it usable?
I would look into Swift https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/. Source: about 1 year ago
How Retool upgraded its 4 TB main application PostgreSQL database
> Had some data in Rackspace Files where "list files" would say X existed, but "GET X" got you a 404. Well yes, Rackspace Files (aka OpenStack Swift) is eventually consistent. It says so literally in the first sentence of the documentation [1]. But this discussion is about relational databases with ACID guarantees, where the C is literally "consistent". [1] https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing
Suggestion: title should be renamed to "Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing in Swift". "Swift Protocol" is something else entirely https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

GlusterFS mentions (2)

[D] What are the compute options you've considered for your projects?
I am a fan of Gearman to schedule and dispatch distributed jobs, Redis as a collaborative blackboard, and GlusterFS to share models across multiple systems and make bulk data available across the entire system (usually referenced in the blackboard as a pathname). Source: almost 1 year ago
Gluster vs Oracle Gluster
If you're not relying on support, then I would probably standardize on the latest packages available from gluster.org. Source: almost 3 years ago