OpenEBS vs Rackspace Cloud Files

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OpenEBS

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+ 1
40
Rackspace Cloud Files

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+ 1
25
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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.

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Pros of OpenEBS
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Files
  • 7
    Great support on Slack
  • 6
    Open source
  • 6
    Easy to use
  • 5
    Container attached storage
  • 5
    In user space
  • 3
    Cloud native storage
  • 3
    Large community
  • 3
    Everything in OpenEBS is a Kubernetes CR
  • 2
    CNCF Project
  • 5
    Akamai CDN
  • 5
    Inexpensive and pay-as-you-go
  • 4
    Simple file upload
  • 3
    Simple scaling
  • 2
    Any media type, any size
  • 2
    Huge time-saver
  • 1
    Easy deployment
  • 1
    Low learning curve
  • 1
    Beginner friendly
  • 1
    Great costumer support

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What is OpenEBS?

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?

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).

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What are some alternatives to OpenEBS and Rackspace Cloud Files?
ceph
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Portworx
It is the cloud native storage company that enterprises depend on to reduce the cost and complexity of rapidly deploying containerized applications across multiple clouds and on-prem environments.
Rook
It is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.
Minio
Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License
Amazon S3
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