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.

• ​flud backup is an ambitious decentralized data storage grid; released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

• ​cleversafe is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

• ​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. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.

• ​mogilefs is an open source decentralized data storage grid in which files are replicated to a number of storage servers. It is written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made ​LiveJournal. The name is an anagram for "OMG files".

• ​GNUnet is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network.

• ​Hadoop is inspired by the Google File System and mapreduce, is supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers.