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OpenEBS vs Rook: 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 Rook? Open source file, block and object storage for Kubernetes. Open source file, block and object storage for Kubernetes.

OpenEBS and Rook can be categorized as "Cloud Storage" tools.

OpenEBS and Rook are both open source tools. OpenEBS with 5.73K GitHub stars and 626 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Rook with 5.54K GitHub stars and 901 GitHub forks.

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Pros of OpenEBS
Pros of Rook
  • 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
  • 3
    Minio Integration
  • 1
    Open Source

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Cons of OpenEBS
Cons of Rook
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    • 2
      Ceph is difficult
    • 1
      Slow

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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 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.

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    What are some alternatives to OpenEBS and Rook?
    ceph
    In computing,It is a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage.
    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.
    Minio
    Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License
    Amazon S3
    Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
    Google Cloud Storage
    Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.
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