Google Cloud Filestore vs OrangeFS
Google Cloud Filestore
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| Figure | Google Cloud Filestore | OrangeFS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.01/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 2 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 8.2 (#8) | 7.7 (#16) |
| Other clients | Filestore can connect to Compute Engine VMs, GKE clusters, Google Cloud VMware Engine, on-premises machines, Cloud Run services, and AI agent fleets and sandboxes. | The maker lists a native Windows parallel client and FUSE modules for Mac and Linux. |
| Purpose | Filestore is a fully managed shared NFS file service for applications that need persistent file storage. | OrangeFS is a scale-out parallel storage system aimed at large storage workloads in HPC, Big Data, streaming video, genomics, and bioinformatics. |
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
Google Cloud Filestore
Google Cloud Filestore has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
OrangeFS
OrangeFS is a free, open-source parallel storage system for large workloads in high-performance computing, Big Data, streaming video, genomics, and bioinformatics. Its user-level servers and clients let applications access disk storage across multiple servers in parallel. Configurable file striping and distributed metadata, including directory metadata, support this layout. OrangeFS supports Linux, macOS, Windows, APIs, and self-hosted deployment. Linux integration uses a kernel client available in the mainline kernel since version 4.6, and the documentation recommends the upstream kernel module. Other interfaces include a native Windows parallel client, FUSE for Linux and Mac, a direct Linux application interface, Java JNI, Hadoop HCFS, WebDAV, and optimized MPI-IO; S3 is also listed among the file access protocols. Security options include capability-based security and default, key-based, and certificate-based modes. LDAP mapping can associate a client certificate subject with a user ID and primary group ID. CloudyCluster offers configurable deployments through Google Cloud and AWS marketplaces. The open-source software is free; commercial and research support is available by quote.