Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux

WekaFS is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to WekaFS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best WekaFS alternative is Ceph, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WekaFS are GlusterFS, Seaweed FS, Google Cloud Filestore and BeeGFS.
Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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