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 ​p2p-hackers mailing list.

• ​ceph is a distributed filesystem intended to be scalable and robust. It includes kernel code to be loaded into a Linux kernel. There are several peer-reviewed papers about the design. licence: LGPL

• ​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

• ​cleversafe is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid. Some of the company's projects are released under GPLv2.

• ​GNUnet is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+

• ​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

• ​CloudStore formerly known as "Kosmos Distributed File System" -- 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

• ​mogilefs is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made ​LiveJournal. The name is an anagram for "OMG files". licence: some combination of BSD and GPL and Artistic.

Interesting Vaporware

• ​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 ​his PhD thesis. He also contributes to the Twisted Python project. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.

See Also

Our Bibliography page.