Distributed Filesystems
Sorted by GitHub stars, which measures attention rather than fitness. Read the release date and the commit count next to it before picking one.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. Apache-2.0, MIT · released 2026-08-03 | 17,128 |
Distributed object, block, and file storage platform. LGPL-3.0 · released unknown | 17,009 |
Distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data. Apache-2.0 · released unknown | 15,653 |
Distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-08-07 | 14,400 |
A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore). Apache-2.0 · released 2025-11-11 | 7,239 |
Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage. GPL-2.0, LGPL-3.0 · released 2025-07-02 | 5,230 |
Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. GPL-2.0 · released 2026-05-18 | 2,003 |
Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system. GPL-2.0 · released 2024-11-28 | 1,441 |
Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | 722 |
Distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system for federated IT infrastructures.. BSD-3-Clause · released 2016-05-24 | 348 |
Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. IPL-1.0 · released unknown | n/a |
A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. Apache-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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