"Reliable erasure coding."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"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."
"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."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The graphs are most valuable. They have a lot of graphs and reports that you can run to see what's happening in the background to configure OpenStack Swift."
"The SwiftStack Controller, which is the web UI, provides out of band management. This has been one of the best features of it. It allows us to be able to do upgrades and look at performance metrics. It is a top feature and reason to choose the product."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"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 monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"Documentation could be improved."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"The file access needs improvement. The NFS was rolled out as a single service. It needs to be fully integrated into the proxy in a highly available fashion, like the regular proxy access is. I know it's on the roadmap."
"It's very well done for what it's supposed to do, and I don't have anything to add, but I would like them to keep it available to the public. SwiftStack is going out of the market. NVIDIA purchased SwiftStack a couple of years ago, and they won't be making it available to the public anymore. Our license is up to March 31st."
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MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 14 reviews while SwiftStack is ranked 8th in File and Object Storage with 2 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while SwiftStack is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of MinIO writes "Offers good object retrieval performance and scalability; but native monitoring tools don't work above a certain bucket size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SwiftStack writes "We are able to dynamically grow storage at a lower cost". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING8, Dell EMC ECS, NetApp StorageGRID and Cloudian HyperStore, whereas SwiftStack is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell EMC ECS, Scality RING8, StorPool and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our MinIO vs. SwiftStack report.
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