Gluster vs Google Cloud Filestore
Gluster
gluster.orgGoogle Cloud Filestore
cloud.google.comSide by side
| Figure | Gluster | Google Cloud Filestore |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 8 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 7.8 (#13) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Protocols | The documentation lists NFS and SMB as standard protocols for accessing Gluster. | Filestore supports NFSv3 across all service tiers and NFSv4.1 on zonal, regional, and enterprise tiers. |
| Purpose | Gluster is a scalable, distributed file system that aggregates disk storage from multiple servers into a single global namespace. | Filestore is a fully managed shared NFS file service for applications that need persistent file storage. |
| Scale | The project says Gluster scales to several petabytes and handles thousands of clients. | 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
Gluster
Gluster is free, open-source distributed file-system software for Linux and self-hosted deployments. It combines disk storage from multiple servers into one global namespace, with the project describing scale to several petabytes and thousands of clients. Gluster is POSIX compatible and can use on-disk filesystems supporting extended attributes. Listed capabilities include replication, quotas, geo-replication, snapshots, bitrot detection, and erasure coding. Access options include native GlusterFS, NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and a Swift REST API. The project describes workloads such as media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks. Capacity, performance, and availability can scale across on-premise, public-cloud, and hybrid environments, using common off-the-shelf hardware. Installation resources include source downloads and Ubuntu PPAs, while documentation covers AWS deployment, SSL, and access-control lists. The project points users to consultancies for additional support and notes that Red Hat does not support community versions.
Google Cloud Filestore
Google Cloud Filestore has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.