MinIO AIStor vs Scality RING
MinIO AIStor
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| Figure | MinIO AIStor | Scality RING |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 0 |
| Spec score · Software-Defined Storage Software | 8.7 (#4) | 7.1 (#20) |
| Compliance | MinIO says AIStor includes WORM storage for SEC 17a-4(f), FINRA, and CFTC requirements, as well as controls supporting HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. | Scality lists ISO/IEC 27001, FIPS 140, SOC 2, Common Criteria, and SecNumCloud among its certifications and validations. |
| Founded | 2014 | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Protocols | AIStor supports S3, S3 Express, SFTP, an Iceberg Catalog and Delta Sharing protocols. | RING supports S3, NFS, and SMB access over one cluster. |
| Purpose | AIStor combines persistent memory, tables, objects, and files in an enterprise AI data store. | Scality RING is distributed object storage for cloud, service-provider, and sovereign cloud environments. |
| Support | Enterprise includes SUBNET direct-to-engineer support 24/7/365 with a less-than-four-hour SLA and Panic Button; Enterprise Lite offers optional direct-to-engineer support with a less-than-five-day SLA. | 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
MinIO AIStor
- AIStor FreeFree
- AIStor EnterprisePriced on request
- AIStor Enterprise LitePriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Enterprise LitePriced on request
In their own words
MinIO AIStor
MinIO AIStor combines persistent memory, tables, objects, and files in an enterprise AI data store. AIStor Memory holds agent context, workspaces, secrets, artifacts, and telemetry. AIStor Tables provides native Apache Iceberg storage for analytics, feature stores, lakehouse architectures, and structured AI datasets. S3-compatible object storage covers models, checkpoints, training datasets, embeddings, documents, media, and logs. Access and integration options include S3, S3 Express, MCP, SFTP and Files, Iceberg Catalog, and OpenSharing. Management features include an admin console, QoS, lifecycle management, encryption, key management, a data firewall, and immutability. The product lists several replication modes, along with audit trails, Prometheus metrics, and error logs. Installation options include Linux, Windows, macOS, Kubernetes Helm, OpenShift, and Podman. AIStor Free costs nothing and includes the full feature set, but is intended for single-node, self-supported use without resilience beyond one node; redistribution is prohibited. Enterprise and Enterprise Lite pricing is available on request. Lite is for capacity requirements below 400 TiB; deployments exceeding that are upgraded to Enterprise. A 60-day trial is listed.
Scality RING
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