Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?

Posted by ingoaf on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

MinIO has got some heavy licensing costs for commercial use. I was wondering if there is any object storage with an S3 API - ideally with a UI and something that could be run easily in a container.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by nik736 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:37PM (#37588980)

SeaweedFS and Garage.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by Cwizard on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:40PM (#37589031)

Have you used Garage in production/professional? What has your experience been like?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by nik736 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:22PM (#37601751)

We were trying it out for quite some time and it worked well apart from two things: anonymous access and the bigger blocker for us was AGPL. Minio and Garage having the same license means I would always prefer Minio.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by ingoaf on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:42PM (#37591086)

I would also be interested in your experience. Besides, they both don't have a UI, don't they?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by ies7 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:11PM (#37592495)

We use seaweed in production, inserting 1-4 million small images per day.

It comes with a web based UI.

We migrate from minio to seaweed around 2020/2021. At that time our minio server have problem handling hundreds of thousands small files.

Btw if you only need to store and serve a few TB, Backblaze B2 is way cheaper and easier.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by nik736 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:20PM (#37601724)

We used it for around 2yrs with the s3 gateway and it was very stable for around 50 TB of data mostly very small files (50-200kb).

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by meotimdihia on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:34PM (#37707594)

I am using Seaweedfs with 40+ TB data and ~100M files. Serve 100-200k+ users daily with servers that just have HDD.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by wmf on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:48PM (#37589153)

Ceph/Rook?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by speedgoose on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:40PM (#37589850)

Have you considered the Open-source version or MinIO? I know the AGPL-v3 is scary to many people but having to release the source code and your very unlikely patches under AGPLv3 doesn’t sound that bad.

Otherwise I played with garage and it was fine but it had no GUI and no configuration file to configure it when I tried it (you need to use the CLI). I would probably favour Ceph in production. Garage is a bit young.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by josephcsible on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:30PM (#37592248)

MinIO is open-source, and like everything else that's open-source, you don't have to pay to use it commercially. Are you confused by what they call a "commercial license"? It's not necessary for commercial purposes; it's just their name for what the FSF calls "selling exceptions". As long as you comply with the AGPL, you don't need to buy it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by ingoaf on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:38AM (#37595748)

I didn't explain enough and thank you for clarification! I think the problem will be that I will not get the project which is using MinIO right now to comply with AGPL.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by ddorian43 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:27AM (#37594296)

There is also Apache Ozone https://ozone.apache.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by ezedv on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:57AM (#37597700)

If you're looking for an open-source alternative to MinIO for object storage, you might want to consider projects like Ceph and OpenIO. Ceph offers scalable and high-performance storage, while OpenIO focuses on an object storage solution with a decentralized approach. Both have active communities and can be suitable options depending on your specific requirements. It's worth exploring their features to see which aligns best with your needs.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? by salmawisoky on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:05AM (#37610093)

I played with garage https://drift-boss.pro

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