Related Projects

These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest. We sometimes exchange ideas with the designers of some of these projects, especially on the ​p2p-hackers mailing list.

• ​flud backup is an ambitious decentralized data storage grid; released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

• ​cleversafe is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

• ​GNUnet is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network.

• ​Hadoop is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives).

• ​mogilefs is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made ​LiveJournal. The name is an anagram for "OMG files".

• ​Kosmos Distributed File System -- "KFS" -- is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop.

Interesting Vaporware

• ​fluidinfo is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage. The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms. Here's ​his PhD thesis. He also contributes to the Twisted Python project. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.