The shared file system that scales automatically, with unlimited storage and high performance.
Never run out of disk again
With the full-featured distributed POSIX filesystem provided by ObjectiveFS, you get a high performance file storage solution backed by your object store.
Works with Your Existing Applications
Take advantage of the flexibility to deploy and run your existing applications in the cloud without modification using the standard filesystem interface provided by ObjectiveFS. You can leverage the power of the cloud while maintaining compatibility with your current applications, standard tools, and cloud management systems, enabling a smooth transition for your current workflows.
Simple Setup and Maintenance
ObjectiveFS integrates seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. All you need is the ObjectiveFS software, your servers and the object store. The ObjectiveFS client-side software runs on your servers and connects directly to the object store backend via the S3 API or Azure Blob Storage REST API, giving you full control over your storage. There is no intermediate servers, metadata servers or any single point of failure. You get a highly available and fault tolerant solution without needing to maintain a storage cluster.
Scalability
You can scale to PBs of storage and thousands of servers. To scale out, just mount your filesystem on more servers and they can all read and write the same filesystem, backed by the object store. Updates from one server are visible across all servers, ensuring consistency and high availability.
Enterprise Grade Performance
With its log-structured implementation, combined with advanced caching techniques, intelligent workload adaptive heuristics, multithreading, architecture-specific performance optimizations, ObjectiveFS delivers fast and efficient reads and writes anywhere in the file, with speeds like a local disk.
Choose Your Object Store
ObjectiveFS is cloud vendor agnostic and you have complete control over which object store you choose to use. ObjectiveFS works with object stores such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, Digital Ocean Spaces, Scaleway, Wasabi, Ceph, MinIO, Netapp StroageGRID, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and other S3-compatible object stores.
Full Control Over Your Storage
You have full control over your storage when using ObjectiveFS. No intermediate servers or metadata servers are needed. The software runs on your servers and connects directly to your object store. The client-side encryption, using a key known only to you, keeps your data encrypted in transit and at rest. Data stored on the filesystem stays completely on your infrastructure and is always under your control.
Share files between EC2 instances with unlimited storage and high performance. You can share files between EC2 instances from different regions. Scale your EC2 instances up and out with high performance and without any storage cluster overhead. Your data is stored reliably and redundantly on Amazon S3.
Scale your WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Moodle file assets with high performance. ObjectiveFS is a high throughput and high performance filesystem for content management systems. Your web servers can concurrently read and write to your shared filesystem and updates are visible to all your servers. Your file assets are automatically shared between your servers by ObjectiveFS as you spin up more servers.
Your image processing and video rendering applications can run directly in the cloud using our POSIX filesystem. Spin up cloud instances on demand for your image and video processing jobs and use ObjectiveFS as a shared persistent storage for your workflow.
Distribute your machine learning, life science and big data computation workload in parallel to the cloud. Use ObjectiveFS shared filesystem to read and write your data concurrently. ObjectiveFS provides the performance needed for big data applications that require high throughput to worker nodes.
ObjectiveFS provides a reliable and secure storage using highly durable object stores such as Amazon S3 and on-premise S3-compatible object stores. Your data is stored securely using end-to-end encryption and can be accessed from your servers, both on-premise and in the cloud. You can use the built-in Snapshot feature to recover point-in-time snapshots of your data.
ObjectiveFS has been a fantastic addition to our infrastructure. I don’t think I will ever work with S3 without it again. Mike K., Principal Architect at WeaveUp Inc
When designing our e-commerce solutions on AWS with Prestashop or Magento, ObjectiveFS is the most valuable partner for shared filesystems. Its high performance, flexibility and resiliency allows our infrastructures to scale efficiently at a reasonable cost. E. Franchini, Solution Architect at neen srl - High Performance Hosting
Thank you again for your excellent support and innovative product - both make accomplishing a truly scalable WordPress infrastructure on AWS easy. Anthony Coleman, Senior Technical Architect at a Fortune 500 company
We need an easy and scalable filesystem for our web servers. We tried so many filesystem solutions and ended with ObjectiveFS. It fits our needs in terms of easy, scalable and performance. We also received really great support. Glen Lumanau, Head of Infrastructure at Kaskus
| ObjectiveFS | EFS | |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability | Backed by Amazon S3 | NFS-based |
| Storage Durability | 99.999999999% by S3 | Not specified |
| Data integrity | Strong checksums | Not specified |
| Performance | Always high performance | Pay for performance |
| **Performance: Small Files ** | 100X faster than EFS (info) | Slow for small files |
| **Performance: Large Files ** | 550+MB/s (info) | 109MB/s |
| Scalability | 1 to 1000s | 1 to 1000s |
| Storage Cost | S3: $0.023/GB | EFS: $0.300/GB |
| Features | ||
| Snapshots | Automatic & Checkpoint | - |
| Local disk cache | Yes | - |
| ACL full support | Yes | - |
| File Capabilities | Yes | - |
| Immutable files and dirs support | Yes | - |
| Append-only files and dirs support | Yes | - |
| POSIX atime support | Yes | - |
| SetUID on directories | Yes | - |
| Compression | Yes | - |
| Transfer Acceleration | Yes | - |
| AWS IAM support | Yes | Yes |
| User/Group ID mapping | Yes | Yes |
| AWS KMS support | Yes | Yes |
| Client side encryption | Yes | - |
| Server side encryption | Yes | Yes |
| Cross-region access | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-cloud support | Yes | - |
| On-premise storage | Yes | - |
ObjectiveFS is a full featured POSIX-compatible file system. S3FS is a way of viewing S3 bucket as a file system, and doesn’t fully support regular file system semantics which breaks the expectation of many Linux programs. see more..
The main difference is number of concurrent mounts. ObjectiveFS supports concurrent mounts from multiple machines, while S3QL supports mounts from one machine only. see more..
