Lustre Alternatives

Lustre is described as 'Massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data' and is a filesystem utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lustre for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Lustre alternative is DiskInternals Linux Reader, which is free. Other great apps like Lustre are Linux File Systems for Windows, Ceph, macFUSE and GlusterFS.

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  1. BeeGFS icon
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    BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. WekaFS icon
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    WekaFS is an extreme-performance parallel filesystem for Linux from WekaIO that works in AWS or on-prem on Industry-Standard Servers. WekaFS includes Enterprise features such as snapshots and tiering to S3 Object Stores.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. XtreemFS icon
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    XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. StorPool icon
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    StorPool is an intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu Server
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Red Hat
     
  6. E2fsprogs (sometimes called the e2fs programs) is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Fuse4X icon
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    Filesystem in userspace implementation for MaxOSX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Quobyte icon
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    Quobyte is a parallel POSIX file system with block and object storage capabilities. It provides outstanding performance, linear scalability, and full fault tolerance.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. simplyblock icon
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    Simplyblock is a software-defined high-performance data storage technology that could be deployed in your own cloud account.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Mounting 3rd-party filesystems on macOS has always been tricky. There's official support for reading NTFS but otherwise we've mainly used solutions based on macFUSE. We've got NTFS-3g which is a pretty mature driver but for Linux filesystems there's only a couple...

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    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. MooseFS icon
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    MooseFS is a fault tolerant, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. LizardFS icon
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    LizardFS is a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available file system. It allows users to combine disk space located on many servers into a single name space which is visible on Unix-like and Windows systems in the same way as other file systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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