BeeGFS vs Panzura CloudFS
BeeGFS
beegfs.io
Panzura CloudFS
panzura.comSide by side
| Figure | BeeGFS | Panzura CloudFS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 8.2 (#7) | 7.0 (#23) |
| Headquarters | Kaiserslautern, Germany | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Intended users | ThinkParQ describes its target environments as HPC, AI and deep learning, life sciences, and oil and gas. | Panzura presents CloudFS for distributed organizations and names AEC, banking and financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and entertainment, and public sector among its industries. |
| Purpose | BeeGFS is a parallel file system designed for high-performance computing, AI, and other data-intensive workloads. | CloudFS provides one authoritative global file data set in object storage for distributed sites to access directly. |
| Support | Hive Enterprise includes professional support, and BeeOND Enterprise lists 5×9 Next Business Day support with 24x7x4 available upon request. | Panzura provides a Service Hub for support and says a team can release a lock left by an offline user without a support ticket. |
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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.
Panzura CloudFS
Panzura CloudFS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.