= Related Projects =

These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest.  We sometimes exchange ideas with the designers of some of these projects, especially on the [http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers p2p-hackers mailing list].

 * [http://flud.org flud backup] is an ambitious decentralized backup system.  flud has the distinction of being one of few decentralized storage projects with a sense of humor.  licence: GPLv3

 * [http://cleversafe.org cleversafe] is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid.  Some of the company's projects are released under GPLv2.

 * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+

 * [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hadoop] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives).  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0

 * [http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/ Kosmos Distributed File System] -- "KFS" -- is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop.  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0

 * [http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ mogilefs] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL.  It was written by the folks who made [http://livejournal.com LiveJournal].  The name is an anagram for "OMG files".  licence: some combination of BSD and GPL and Artistic.

= Interesting Vaporware =

 * [http://fluidinfo.com/ fluidinfo] is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage.  The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms.  Here's [http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf his PhD thesis].  He also contributes to the Twisted Python project.  fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.


== See Also ==

Our [wiki:Bibliography Bibliography page].