Ceph vs RustFS: Choosing the Right Open-Source Storage for Your Stack

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Ceph and RustFS are both S3-compatible open-source storage solutions, but they serve fundamentally different use cases. Ceph is a unified platform supporting object, block, and file storage, capable of scaling from petabytes to exabytes across large distributed clusters. RustFS, written in Rust under the Apache 2.0 license, is a lightweight single-binary S3-only object store designed for quick deployment with minimal operational overhead. Teams requiring multi-paradigm storage across shared hardware should opt for Ceph, especially if storage engineers are already on staff. RustFS is better suited for teams that need straightforward S3 object storage up and running quickly, without the complexity of managing a full distributed storage cluster.

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