Alternatives to SeaweedFS
A self-hosted distributed storage system offering S3-compatible object storage and a file system. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
SeaweedFS
A self-hosted distributed storage system offering S3-compatible object storage and a file system.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SeaweedFS.
Garage
Distributed S3-compatible object store built for unreliable hardware.
Garage is an AGPL-3.0 single Rust binary designed for consumer hardware across sites, but implements only the common subset of the S3 API.
Also worth comparing
These listings name SeaweedFS as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Tahoe-LAFS
A decentralized storage system that spreads encrypted files across multiple servers you control.
SeaweedFS scales across many servers with an S3-compatible API and file system, but it does not offer Tahoe-LAFS's encryption that hides data from storage servers.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
s3cmd
A command-line client for uploading, downloading, syncing and managing files on S3-compatible storage.
s5cmd
A fast command-line tool that runs parallel copy and sync operations on S3 and local files.
Rclone
A command line tool that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than seventy cloud storage services.
Nextcloud
A file sync and collaboration server you run yourself, with desktop and mobile clients that behave like Dropbox.
Samba
Open-source SMB file and print server that can also run as an Active Directory domain controller.
