BeeGFS vs Google Cloud Filestore
BeeGFS
beegfs.ioGoogle Cloud Filestore
cloud.google.comSide by side
| Figure | BeeGFS | Google Cloud Filestore |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 8 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 8.2 (#7) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Purpose | BeeGFS is a parallel file system designed for high-performance computing, AI, and other data-intensive workloads. | Filestore is a fully managed shared NFS file service for applications that need persistent file storage. |
| Scale | BeeGFS can scale performance and capacity from small clusters to enterprise systems with thousands of nodes. | The product page lists capacity up to 100 TiB, throughput up to 26 GiB/s, and up to 920K IOPS. |
Plans
Google Cloud Filestore
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per IOPS)$0.01 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per IOPS)$0.03 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (instance capacity)$0.12 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (instance capacity)$0.21 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance off$0.25 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance off$0.45 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per instance)$20 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per instance)$40 a month
In their own words
BeeGFS
BeeGFS is a parallel file system for high-performance computing, AI, and other data-intensive workloads. Its user-space services run over filesystems such as ext4, XFS, and ZFS, with metadata spread across multiple servers. It is designed to scale performance and capacity from small clusters to enterprise systems with thousands of nodes. Native client and server components are available for Linux across x86_64, AMD, ARM, OpenPower, and other CPU architectures. BeeGFS 8 Remote Storage Targets synchronize with S3 object storage, while BeeGFS Copy supports parallel copying among BeeGFS and other locally mounted file systems. System-wide monitoring and Grafana dashboards provide views of performance and system health. Hive Enterprise adds high availability, metadata and file-content mirroring, quota enforcement, and tiered storage pools. The Community Edition is free up to 1 PB of total storage and is for self-supported end users; its BeeOND use is limited to five compute nodes contributing storage. Capacity beyond 1 PB requires a subscription license. BeeGFS is available for Linux, API, and self-hosted deployment.
Google Cloud Filestore
Google Cloud Filestore has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.