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OpenEBS vs Rackspace Cloud Files: What are the differences?
What is OpenEBS? Cloud native storage for containerized workloads. OpenEBS allows you to treat your persistent workload containers, such as DBs on containers, just like other containers. OpenEBS itself is deployed as just another container on your host.
What is Rackspace Cloud Files? Store it on Cloud Files, serve it fast on Akamai's CDN. Cloud Files, powered by OpenStack®, provides an easy to use online storage for files and media which can be delivered globally at blazing speeds over Akamai's content delivery network (CDN).
OpenEBS and Rackspace Cloud Files can be categorized as "Cloud Storage" tools.
Some of the features offered by OpenEBS are:
- Open source
- Block Storage
- dynamic and static PV/PVC provisioning
On the other hand, Rackspace Cloud Files provides the following key features:
- Pay as you grow pricing starting at 10¢/GB/Mo.
- Akamai CDN delivery of your content starting at 12¢/GB
- Use as much or as little storage as you want
"Great support on Slack" is the primary reason why developers consider OpenEBS over the competitors, whereas "Akamai CDN" was stated as the key factor in picking Rackspace Cloud Files.
OpenEBS is an open source tool with 5.73K GitHub stars and 626 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenEBS's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of OpenEBS
- Great support on Slack7
- Open source6
- Easy to use6
- Container attached storage5
- In user space5
- Cloud native storage3
- Large community3
- Everything in OpenEBS is a Kubernetes CR3
- CNCF Project2
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Files
- Akamai CDN5
- Inexpensive and pay-as-you-go5
- Simple file upload4
- Simple scaling3
- Any media type, any size2
- Huge time-saver2
- Easy deployment1
- Low learning curve1
- Beginner friendly1
- Great costumer support1