List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for File Transfer – Distributed Filesystems

Network distributed filesystems.

• Ceph – Distributed object store and file system.
• DRBD – Distributed Replicated Block Device.
• GlusterFS – Scale-out network-attached storage file system.
• Go IPFS – Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
• HDFS – Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.
• LeoFS – Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.
• Lustre – Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
• Minio – Minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. AGPL-3.0 Go
• MooseFS – Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.
• OpenAFS – Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.
• Perkeep (née Camlistore) – A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data.
• SheepDog – A distributed Blockdevice, Rest, QEMU and distributed Filesystem storage.
• Swift – A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
• TahoeLAFS – secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.
• XtreemFS – XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.

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