MinIO has got some heavy licensing costs for commercial use. I was wondering if there is any object storage with an S3 API - ideally with a UI and something that could be run easily in a container.
Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#2SeaweedFS and Garage.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#3SeaweedFS and Garage.
Have you used Garage in production/professional? What has your experience been like?
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#4Ceph/Rook?
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#5Have you considered the Open-source version or MinIO? I know the AGPL-v3 is scary to many people but having to release the source code and your very unlikely patches under AGPLv3 doesn’t sound that bad.
Otherwise I played with garage and it was fine but it had no GUI and no configuration file to configure it when I tried it (you need to use the CLI). I would probably favour Ceph in production. Garage is a bit young.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#6SeaweedFS and Garage.
I would also be interested in your experience. Besides, they both don't have a UI, don't they?
Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#7MinIO is open-source, and like everything else that's open-source, you don't have to pay to use it commercially. Are you confused by what they call a "commercial license"? It's not necessary for commercial purposes; it's just their name for what the FSF calls "selling exceptions". As long as you comply with the AGPL, you don't need to buy it.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#8SeaweedFS and Garage.
I would also be interested in your experience. Besides, they both don't have a UI, don't they?
We use seaweed in production, inserting 1-4 million small images per day.
It comes with a web based UI.
We migrate from minio to seaweed around 2020/2021. At that time our minio server have problem handling hundreds of thousands small files.
Btw if you only need to store and serve a few TB, Backblaze B2 is way cheaper and easier.
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Re: Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
#10There is also Apache Ozone https://ozone.apache.org/