We performed a comparison between MinIO and Scality RING based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Very good at object retrieval."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
"The developer support could be better."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 13th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo, Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp StorageGRID. See our MinIO vs. Scality RING report.
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