Vice President, Artificial Intelligence at DLytica Inc.
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-16T17:34:42Z
Nov 16, 2023
MinIO requires maintenance. One person is required to take care of the tool's maintenance part. I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall product a seven or eight out of ten.
I recommend the solution to start-up businesses. It is the best tool in the market if they want a simple and low-maintenance product. Also, it requires DevOps expertise for the smooth functioning of scalability and reverse proxy features. I rate it eight out of ten.
I would rate the tool an eight out of ten. We use the solution’s community version. My company is the implementer of MinIO and not the end user. We are a fintech company that provides digital lending solutions and digital onboarding solutions to banks and financial initiatives. When we deploy our solutions, we also implement Document Management Systems as part of our solutions. These Document Management Systems use MinIO as the core object storage. We have not found any issues in the tool’s maintenance. You can get pretty good object storage with the community version. The tool has good capabilities in the enterprise version as well. I would definitely go for MinIO over other technologies.
Data Scientist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-04-25T11:59:19Z
Apr 25, 2022
It's difficult to comment on the product because we haven't completed testing or deployed it in the production environment. Moving to MinIO involves a learning curve. It's a question of whether someone is prepared to put in the effort to learn the solution and whether they have sufficient experience. The decision to use it needs to be based on whether it's for backup only or for backup and disaster recovery. Then there's the option to use it for analytics and AI, which is more complex and requires integration with other tools. Once the solution has more maturity, I think it will become a dominant product. For now, I rate it eight out of 10.
FOSS Consultant & Creative Commons Musician at EVALinux
Real User
2021-12-21T10:40:00Z
Dec 21, 2021
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. There were two huge users, but at points, there were many sporadical users. So basically, the two users were consuming 80% or 90% of the resources, while the rest of the users, maybe ten of them, working just indirectly. The premise required a bit of maintenance, which I was responsible for. They tried to update very often. In fact, every two weeks they tried to make a release or they urged you to check if there were any new releases. At the time, given the nature of cryptocurrency mining, we were using MinIO extensively. My advice would be to go through the manual slowly to understand every aspect of MinIO. That helps you grasp how it works and how it needs to be installed and what the requirements are. They have very good representation.
I feel MinIO is the best solution to recommend to anyone who requires on-premise S3-compatible storage. It is easy to install, easy to configure, and you can get it up and running in minutes, not hours or days. I would rate this product as nine out of ten.
Senior Engineer- Cloud/Big Data System Software Research at Samsung Electronics
Vendor
2021-10-04T23:16:49Z
Oct 4, 2021
My advice to anyone considering using MinIO would be to first check if the open source version works for you. It probably should be able to. It has an S3 plugin so quite easily you can have interoperability between the public and private cloud or a hybrid setup. That is one advantage of the system. So if you need a private enterprise working as a public cloud, then MinIO is one of the best solutions I've seen so far. I was using it for my personal work and MinIO it's a high-performance object storage system. So when you need high performance, you should go to MinIO. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate MinIO an eight. In the current market, when you have so many options for objects storage, MinIO is completely open source and an all inclusive package offering you both stability and scalability and its most attractive feature is the S3 plugin which is very similar to AWS.
If you want to go with MinIO setup, I suggest using a Kubernetes-based setup using helm chart because it's quite easy to manage and will less of a learning curve. I rate the solution eight out of 10.
Staff Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-09-30T20:25:00Z
Sep 30, 2021
I rate MinIO eight out of 10. It has a good UI, and it allows you to use the command line, which has a solid list of operations that you can perform. My advice to anyone who implementing MinIO is to take advantage of the command-line interface. It's pretty good to use. If you use the command line wisely, it is a highly efficient feature.
senior software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-09-06T10:30:41Z
Sep 6, 2021
My advise would be: use it in develpment/test environment as a replacement to a production S3 storage. I don't have enough experience to recommend to use it in production environments.
As the solution evolves, it will become a better product, but right now it has a lot of rough edges. I would not recommend implementing MinIO unless you have sufficient technical expertise. I'm very familiar with non-relational as well as relational databases, and with Linux, which helped during implementation, but not every shop has that skill set available. I was able to extrapolate what it should be doing based on the type of product it is and comparisons with similar technologies that I've dealt with in the past. Without that experience I think it would be difficult. If you're doing a single server implementation, it's very simple but it gets complex very quickly if you're building a clustered server, which is what we were doing. I rate the solution 7 out of 10. I would rate it higher if the management tools were usable on large buckets, and the quality of the documentation was higher.
senior software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-08-30T20:16:17Z
Aug 30, 2021
The solution was intended for private cloud, but we also had an on-premise installation which meant we could manually install the MinIO in every computer required. For on-premise installations, we could install MinIO and just change the connection string of the service using that MinIO. I recommend the solution, it's quite simple to implement and is very powerful because if you need to run the storage in your computer it's as simple as having a container of MinIO. I rate this solution eight out of 10.
Technical Lead and Senior Java Developer at Novin High-Tech Solutions
Real User
2020-06-28T08:51:00Z
Jun 28, 2020
My advice for anybody who is implementing MinIO is to visit the website and view the documentation. It is very complete and is helpful. This is a good product choice for startups that don't have a system administrator. It has a good API and it's easy to use. My main complaint is about the lack of monitoring tools. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
What is the difference between objects and files? Objects are large collections of data collecting or storing items. Files are a single potential piece within an object.
I rate the solution’s performance as seven to eight out of ten. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
MinIO requires maintenance. One person is required to take care of the tool's maintenance part. I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall product a seven or eight out of ten.
I recommend the solution to start-up businesses. It is the best tool in the market if they want a simple and low-maintenance product. Also, it requires DevOps expertise for the smooth functioning of scalability and reverse proxy features. I rate it eight out of ten.
I would rate the tool an eight out of ten. We use the solution’s community version. My company is the implementer of MinIO and not the end user. We are a fintech company that provides digital lending solutions and digital onboarding solutions to banks and financial initiatives. When we deploy our solutions, we also implement Document Management Systems as part of our solutions. These Document Management Systems use MinIO as the core object storage. We have not found any issues in the tool’s maintenance. You can get pretty good object storage with the community version. The tool has good capabilities in the enterprise version as well. I would definitely go for MinIO over other technologies.
It's difficult to comment on the product because we haven't completed testing or deployed it in the production environment. Moving to MinIO involves a learning curve. It's a question of whether someone is prepared to put in the effort to learn the solution and whether they have sufficient experience. The decision to use it needs to be based on whether it's for backup only or for backup and disaster recovery. Then there's the option to use it for analytics and AI, which is more complex and requires integration with other tools. Once the solution has more maturity, I think it will become a dominant product. For now, I rate it eight out of 10.
I rate MinIO an eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. There were two huge users, but at points, there were many sporadical users. So basically, the two users were consuming 80% or 90% of the resources, while the rest of the users, maybe ten of them, working just indirectly. The premise required a bit of maintenance, which I was responsible for. They tried to update very often. In fact, every two weeks they tried to make a release or they urged you to check if there were any new releases. At the time, given the nature of cryptocurrency mining, we were using MinIO extensively. My advice would be to go through the manual slowly to understand every aspect of MinIO. That helps you grasp how it works and how it needs to be installed and what the requirements are. They have very good representation.
I feel MinIO is the best solution to recommend to anyone who requires on-premise S3-compatible storage. It is easy to install, easy to configure, and you can get it up and running in minutes, not hours or days. I would rate this product as nine out of ten.
My advice to anyone considering using MinIO would be to first check if the open source version works for you. It probably should be able to. It has an S3 plugin so quite easily you can have interoperability between the public and private cloud or a hybrid setup. That is one advantage of the system. So if you need a private enterprise working as a public cloud, then MinIO is one of the best solutions I've seen so far. I was using it for my personal work and MinIO it's a high-performance object storage system. So when you need high performance, you should go to MinIO. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate MinIO an eight. In the current market, when you have so many options for objects storage, MinIO is completely open source and an all inclusive package offering you both stability and scalability and its most attractive feature is the S3 plugin which is very similar to AWS.
If you want to go with MinIO setup, I suggest using a Kubernetes-based setup using helm chart because it's quite easy to manage and will less of a learning curve. I rate the solution eight out of 10.
I rate MinIO eight out of 10. It has a good UI, and it allows you to use the command line, which has a solid list of operations that you can perform. My advice to anyone who implementing MinIO is to take advantage of the command-line interface. It's pretty good to use. If you use the command line wisely, it is a highly efficient feature.
My advise would be: use it in develpment/test environment as a replacement to a production S3 storage. I don't have enough experience to recommend to use it in production environments.
As the solution evolves, it will become a better product, but right now it has a lot of rough edges. I would not recommend implementing MinIO unless you have sufficient technical expertise. I'm very familiar with non-relational as well as relational databases, and with Linux, which helped during implementation, but not every shop has that skill set available. I was able to extrapolate what it should be doing based on the type of product it is and comparisons with similar technologies that I've dealt with in the past. Without that experience I think it would be difficult. If you're doing a single server implementation, it's very simple but it gets complex very quickly if you're building a clustered server, which is what we were doing. I rate the solution 7 out of 10. I would rate it higher if the management tools were usable on large buckets, and the quality of the documentation was higher.
The solution was intended for private cloud, but we also had an on-premise installation which meant we could manually install the MinIO in every computer required. For on-premise installations, we could install MinIO and just change the connection string of the service using that MinIO. I recommend the solution, it's quite simple to implement and is very powerful because if you need to run the storage in your computer it's as simple as having a container of MinIO. I rate this solution eight out of 10.
I would advise others to not use MinIO on Kubernetes. I would rate MinIO an eight out of 10.
My advice for anybody who is implementing MinIO is to visit the website and view the documentation. It is very complete and is helpful. This is a good product choice for startups that don't have a system administrator. It has a good API and it's easy to use. My main complaint is about the lack of monitoring tools. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.