Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

Gartner, Inc. published reviews and ratings of products in distributed file systems and object storage market.

What is distributed file systems and object storage?
Gartner defines distributed file systems and object storage as software and hardware solutions that are based on “shared nothing architecture” and that support object and/or scale-out file technology to address requirements for unstructured data growth. A shared-nothing architecture is a distributed computing architecture in which there is no single point of contention across the system. Distributed file system storage uses a single parallel file system to cluster multiple storage nodes together, presenting a single namespace and a storage pool to provide high-bandwidth data access for multiple hosts in parallel. Data is distributed over multiple nodes in the cluster to deliver data availability and resilience in a self-healing manner, and to provide high throughput and scale capacity linearly. Object storage refers to devices and software that house data in structures called “objects,” and serve clients data via RESTful HTTP APIs, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and OpenStack Swift.

Products examined:

Dell EMC PowerScale
Cloudian HyperStore
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Qumulo File Data Platform
Scality Ring
Nutanix Unified Storage
Cohesity SmartFiles
Minio
NetApp StorageGRID
Hitachi Vantara Content Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Gluster Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Huawei OceanStor 9000
Quantum ActiveScale
Veritas Access
Huawei OceanStor Pacific Series
WekaFS
Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage
IBM Spectrum Scale
DDN EXAScaler
Vast Data Universal Storage
DataCore Swarm
Nvidia SwiftStack
StorageCraft OneXafe
Inspur AS13000
XSKY (Beijing) Data Technology XEDP
HPE MapR-XD
MapR-XD XEOS
SandStone USP
Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS CD10000 hyperscale system
DDN Web Object Scaler
Commvault Distributed Storage
Quobyte
Quantum StorNext File System