Gluster vs Scality RING
Gluster
gluster.orgScality RING
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| Figure | Gluster | Scality RING |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Software-Defined Storage Software | 7.9 (#10) | 7.1 (#20) |
| Deployment | The documentation describes scaling capacity, performance, and availability across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid environments. | The product page lists on-premise, air-gapped, and sovereign-cloud deployment options. |
| Intended users | The project says Gluster is used in production at organizations in media, healthcare, government, education, web 2.0, and financial services. | Scality describes RING as built for cloud and service-provider environments and for organizations running concurrent backup, archive, analytics, cloud-native, AI, and customer-facing workloads. |
| Protocols | The documentation lists NFS and SMB as standard protocols for accessing Gluster. | RING supports S3, NFS, and SMB access over one cluster. |
| Purpose | Gluster is a scalable, distributed file system that aggregates disk storage from multiple servers into a single global namespace. | Scality RING is distributed object storage for cloud, service-provider, and sovereign cloud environments. |
| Scale | The project says Gluster scales to several petabytes and handles thousands of clients. | RING supports multi-petabyte to exabyte capacity in one logical namespace, with capacity, performance, tenants, sites, and protocols scaling independently. |
| Security | Gluster documentation includes an SSL guide and access-control-list administration guidance. | Scality's security page says its platform supports S3 Object Lock, fine-grained IAM and MFA, TLS in transit, and AES-256 encryption at rest. |
| Support | The project points users to consultancies for design, performance, and additional support; Red Hat says it does not support community versions. | Scality offers RING installation and deployment services, training, capacity expansion assistance, and phone and ticket support during business hours; its page lists response targets of 15 minutes for Priority 1, 4 hours for Priority 2, and 3 days for Priority 3. |
Plans
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.
Scality RING
Scality RING has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.