Distributed Filesystems#

Network distributed filesystems.


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Ceph#

Distributed object, block, and file storage platform.

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★17021 2026-09-09 C++ LGPL-3.0

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DRBD#

Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver.

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★722 2026-09-08 C GPL-2.0

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GlusterFS#

Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage.

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★5232 2026-09-09 C GPL-2.0 LGPL-3.0

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Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)#

Distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data.

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★15654 2026-09-08 Java Apache-2.0

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JuiceFS#

Distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.

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★14409 2026-09-09 Go Apache-2.0

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Kubo#

Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.

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★17131 2026-09-09 Go Apache-2.0 MIT

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Lustre#

Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

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★? ? C GPL-2.0

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MooseFS#

Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.

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★2000 2026-05-18 C GPL-2.0

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OpenAFS#

Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.

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★? ? C IPL-1.0

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Openstack Swift#

A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.

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★? ? Python Apache-2.0

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Perkeep#

A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore).

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★7239 2026-02-01 C Apache-2.0

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TahoeLAFS#

Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.

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★1442 2026-01-21 Python GPL-2.0

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XtreemFS#

Distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system for federated IT infrastructures..

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★348 2024-10-07 Java BSD-3-Clause

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