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24 alternatives to Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

A tile server for WSI stored in S3-compatible object storage. - PABannier/WSIStreamer

This tool enables users to stream large medical images directly from Amazon S3 storage without requiring full downloads first. It's designed for healthcare professionals and developers who need to access gigabyte-sized… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. - GitHub - viggy28/streambed: Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DagsHub client libraries. Contribute to DagsHub/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Query SQLite files in S3 using s3fs. Contribute to litements/s3sqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · 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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    A Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · 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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    Lambda functions over S3 objects with concurrency control (each, map, reduce, filter) - littlstar/s3-lambda

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An S3 File Uploader GUI written in Python. Contribute to charlesdaniel/s3_uploader development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Got into a rabbit hole today. POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'. Is this useful to anyone?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil. Archil is transforming object storage, like Amazon S3, into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Last year, we launched Archil’s NFS-based product publicly on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and we were absolutely thrilled to see the response of this community. Since our last launch, we took a 10 month company-wide bet to build our own, custom storage protocol to deliver true, local-like performance to cloud instances – by behaving closer to a block storage…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Reduce image loading time by offloading media to the cloud.

    Nov 2025 · next3offload.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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    An incredibly simple, open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3-compatible storage—no servers needed - goshops-com/clipshare

    2024 · 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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    This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1/ It uses Fly.io[0], which can automatically pause your database after all connections are released (and start it again when new connections join). 2/ It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 / Decoupled Storage[2]. 3/ It uses Tigris[3], Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage. Oriole will automatically backup the data to Tigris using background workers. I wouldn't recommend using this in production, but I think it's in a good spot to provoke some discussion and ideas. You can get it running…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I created a 100% Open source Company-wide Self-hosted File Sharing Solution for Teams Recently, I wanted to share HD images and video files with my graphic designer. She’s exceptional at her craft but isn’t familiar with AWS S3 So, I got an idea and built this. Github Repo: https://github.com/rohitg00/s3-file-share-for-free Detailed Guide: https://ghumare64.medium.com/i-built-a-company-wide-self-hos...

    2024 · s3-file-share-for-free-35n2u.kinsta.app · its alternatives →

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    We (TrueVault), released our HIPAA compliant file storage today. Our BLOB Store is not a cloud file backup service like Box or Dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. During our beta period in December, early adopters are using the BLOB Store to store X-Rays, CT Scans, MRIs, PDFs, scanned medical records, images, and videos. You can upload, update, delete, and download any binary file via our REST API. We are also beta testing a browser-to-TrueVault direct file upload and download web form. If you would like to join the…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    I've been going through Cem Yuksel's "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course and thought that writing a volume renderer would be a good way to test my knowledge. It is a common technique used to render 3D medical data. Works by ray marching a specific step size, reading a 3D texture (e.g. MRI data), and calculating opacity values. Code should be easy to get started with for anyone familiar with the JS ecosystem. Questions for the HN community: I spent 20-25% of the entire time just setting up the project and fighting issues with the JavaScript ecosystem. This experience has made me…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tebi▲67

    Geo-distributed object storage solution

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Blober.io▲104

    Safely transfer files between AWS S3, Google Drive, Azure Blob, GoPro Cloud, Backblaze B2, Dropbox and more. Lifetime license, no subscription fees. Desktop app for Mac, Windows & Linux.

    Jan 2026 · blober.io · its alternatives →

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