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24 alternatives to A simple distributable object-storage system in Go
Simple Object Storage (I wish I could call it Steve's Simple Storage, or S3 ;) - skx/sos
A simple object-storage system written in Go that provides distributed file storage capabilities. Built as an alternative to more complex storage solutions, it offers straightforward object storage functionality in a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A simple distributable object-storage system in Go launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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go-storage▲86An application-oriented unified storage layer for Golang.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. Data is compressed and encrypted before upload.
Jul 2026 · zerofs.net · its alternatives →
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Files SDK▲242A unified storage SDK for object and blob backends
May 2026 · files-sdk.dev · its alternatives →
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Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud - KonstantinSchubert/zero
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Movestax▲277The serverless cloud platform for modern builders
2025 · app.movestax.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Emilie, I have a literature background (which explains the well-written documentation!) and I've been learning Rust and distributed systems by building minikv over the past few months. It recently got featured in Programmez! magazine: https://www.programmez.com/actualites/minikv-un-key-value-st... minikv is an open-source, distributed storage engine built for learning, experimentation, and self-hosted setups. It combines a strongly-consistent key-value database (Raft), S3-compatible object storage, and basic multi-tenancy. Features/highlights: - Raft…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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we've been working on a KV store for the past year or so which is 2-6x faster than Redis (benchmark link below) yet disk persisted! so you get the speed of in-memory KV stores but with disk persistence. To achieve this we've created our custom filesystem that is optimized for our special usecase and we're doing smart batching for writes and predictive fetching for reads. In addition to basic operations, it also provides atomic inc/dec, atomic json patch, range scans and a unique key monitoring mechanism (pub-sub) over WebSockets which essentially allows you to receive notification on…
2025 · hpkv.io · its alternatives →
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2012 · pablo-merino.github.com · its alternatives →
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SlateDB is an embedded storage engine built as a log-structured merge-tree. Unlike traditional LSM-tree storage engines, SlateDB writes data to object storage (S3, GCS, ABS, MinIO, Tigris, and so on). Leveraging object storage allows SlateDB to provide bottomless storage capacity, high durability, and easy replication. The trade-off is that object storage has a higher latency and higher API cost than local disk. To mitigate high write API costs (PUTs), SlateDB batches writes. Rather than writing every put() call to object storage, MemTables are flushed periodically to object storage as a…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. - GitHub - Barre/ZeroFS: ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:man: a simple, git diffable JSON database on yer filesystem. By the power of NodeJS - DO-SAY-GO/sirdb
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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S2 was on HN for our intro blog post a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42480105). S2 started out as a serverless API — think S3, but for streams. The idea of streams as a cloud storage primitive resonated with a lot of folks, but not having an open source option was a sticking point for adoption – especially from projects that were themselves open source! So we decided to build it: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2 s2-lite is MIT-licensed, written in Rust, and uses SlateDB (https://slatedb.io) as its storage engine. SlateDB is an…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - minio/minio
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I had this backup code working reliably for years, using local file system, vps/dedicated server, or remote storage for backup, then I finally get time to wrap README, iron few missing switches and publish. Should be production ready and reliable, so it could be useful to others. Contributors are welcome.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object storage. - MinIO
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simplistic and minimalist storage. Contribute to Jibaru/gostore development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, AWS S3 Express One Zone promises improved latency and throughput but comes with several limitations including only being available in one availability zone and the directory bucket structure. We developed Accelerated Cloud Storage to offer an object storage system with high performance (up to 10X better than S3 Express One Zone in latency and throughput), strong consistency and global availability that scales and moves data based on demand. The service is accessible through an S3 compatible Go/Python SDK. ACS has enterprise-grade security compliance (SOC 2 Type 2 pending), and a…
2025 · acceleratedcloudstorage.com · its alternatives →
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RipDB▲65Fast, decentralized key-value Store for web3 builders
2022 · zdenham.github.io · its alternatives →
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a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go - kahing/goofys
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we're Eric and Dean, creators of SchemafreeSQL. Its roots go back to an on-line Web App Development Environment we developed back in 1999. It was comprised of an IDE, Web Server, Object Store, Virtual File System, Template System, and polyglot (Java, JavaScript, and Python). Of course, we named it “.OS”. Then we ended up dropping it. But that's a story for another time. It was the ease of use of the Object Store from .OS that we really missed, which brings us back to SchemafreeSQL. It provides an enhanced API to your SQL Database which allows it to function as a Schemaless…
2022 · schemafreesql.com · its alternatives →
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