We performed a comparison between DataCore Swarm and MinIO 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."The ability for the solution to use any new hardware quickly and without administration is a great thing in the context of hosting."
"The first feature is compatibility with the S3 protocol. DataCore SWARM allows you to quickly have an on-premise, robust and scalable environment that is natively compatible with the S3 protocol. The functionalities used are therefore derived from the S3 protocol, notably versioning and therefore the possibility of configuring immutability in governance or compliance mode. The object metada can be enriched with the addition of tags to subsequently enable filtering and searching. Configuring and using DataCore SWARM is simple and flexible. It is very easy to create domains, tenants and buckets for different use cases with various authentications. The cluster architecture also allows replication between different clusters at different configured levels (Cluster / Domains / ...) A web interface for browsing the content of existing buckets allows simple and rapid manipulation of certain objects such as sharing via a link or cropping a video. Finally, the physical architecture of the solution is based on an x86 server and its scale-up or scale-out evolution is very simple by adding disks or servers."
"I find its flexibility valuable."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The solution needs simpler architecture."
"The product currently requires a significant number of servers to start. There are also network prerequisites to be met in order to guarantee good security of the architecture, which means that the product is only available to large customers. Besides, the license starts at 100TB. An Appliance version is being developed with an architecture based on containers which will make it possible to offer DataCore SWARM to everyone. The product has been evolving since the acquisition by DataCore, but maintaining and updating the product is not always easy and needs to be improved. For now, we only use DataCore SWARM for a few use cases and therefore a small part of the existing functionalities. With use we will perhaps have more criticism of the product but not for the moment!"
"The pricing can definitely be better."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"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."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The solution should have high availability. Also, support should be quick."
DataCore Swarm is ranked 14th in File and Object Storage with 3 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. DataCore Swarm is rated 9.6, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore Swarm writes "An On-premises object storage platform that provides data protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". DataCore Swarm is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Cloudian HyperStore. See our DataCore Swarm vs. MinIO report.
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