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GekkoFS vs Tahoe-LAFS

GekkoFS

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Tahoe-LAFS

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FigureGekkoFSTahoe-LAFS
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · Distributed File System Software6.8 (#25)8.3 (#6)

Plans

GekkoFS

  • FreeFree

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Tahoe-LAFS

  • Free and open-source softwareFree

Tahoe-LAFS pricing →

In their own words

GekkoFS

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Tahoe-LAFS

Tahoe-LAFS is free, open-source software for storing files across multiple servers. Before upload, a client encrypts each file with a unique key. Erasure coding distributes each file as shares, allowing recovery when some storage servers fail; the documented default uses 10 shares across at least 7 servers and can recover from any 3. A gateway checks integrity and ignores corrupted shares. Files can be immutable or mutable, with read-only or read-write access for mutable files and directories. The gateway gives access through HTTP(S) and SFTP, and a REST-style Web API supports programmatic operations. Users can run a gateway or operate a full grid of storage nodes and an introducer. Installation is documented for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD. The software is available under GNU GPL version 2 or later, or the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence version 1.0 or later. It is free at free. The public test grid is for experimentation, not reliable or large-scale storage.

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