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DataCore Swarm vs Scality RING comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.1
DataCore Swarm offers flexible, user-friendly management, scalability, and robust security with S3 compatibility, ensuring seamless hardware integration and data availability.
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Scality RING offers secure, efficient storage with S3/CDMI support, erasure coding, and scalability for large organizations.
DataCore Swarm is highly available.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
7.1
DataCore Swarm's high cost, server needs, and complex setup limit its accessibility, requiring streamlined processes and lower volume licenses.
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Scality RING needs improved S3 compliance, streamlined capacity expansion, better scalability, and support for varied processor architectures.
The main issue currently is the hard installation process.
 

Scalability Issues

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Scality RING8 offers improved scalability, managing petabytes for enterprises, but past issues existed, especially with migrations.
We use two kinds of architectures, one with single nodes where disk addition is easy and another with a larger infrastructure.
 

Customer Service

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Scality RING8 support is skilled but occasionally requires repeated explanations due to unique customer setups, yet remains positively received.
They're proactive and assist even if there's no direct issue with DataCore Swarm.
 

Categories and Ranking

DataCore Swarm
Ranking in File and Object Storage
13th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Scality RING
Ranking in File and Object Storage
16th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of DataCore Swarm is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Scality RING is 3.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File and Object Storage
 

Featured Reviews

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Low-cost storage with great automatic failover and easy expansion capabilities
The solution needs simpler architecture; we need many servers to start using the solution. We know that a project is in the roadmap to put the services in a container and we think it will be a very good thing. The second thing would be to improve the updates of the solution. We need a "long" time to pass between the patches on each new version. Again, the containers would be a solution to that. The last improvement for us is already in the pipeline, and we have been able to test it. It's an all-in-one server solution. This system allows us to do the primary copy of the data on a unique server that we can easily move and then transfer the data inside the data center.
Guillaume Lapouge - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing
It's a very good product, but for large-scale usage, it has limitations. Scality RING's lack of extensive testing and potential hidden limitations. While Scality provides precise architecture guidelines for sizing the storage infrastructure, Orange utilizes a different processor architecture for its Ovi servers, requiring additional optimization beyond what Scality offers. In essence, the product lacks third-party optimization capabilities.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Comms Service Provider
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Legal Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DataCore Swarm?
The first feature is compatibility with the S3 protocol. DataCore SWARM allows you to quickly have an on-premise, robust and scalable environment that is natively compatible with the S3 protocol. ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore Swarm?
The first installation brick is expensive but the upgrades are extremely simple and granular by adding disks or nodes
What needs improvement with DataCore Swarm?
The product currently requires a significant number of servers to start. There are also network prerequisites to be met in order to guarantee good security of the architecture, which means that the...
What do you like most about Scality RING8?
Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency.
What needs improvement with Scality RING8?
It's a very good product, but for large-scale usage, it has limitations. Scality RING's lack of extensive testing and potential hidden limitations. While Scality provides precise architecture guide...
What is your primary use case for Scality RING8?
I work with Scality RING for storage, and we have a concrete strategy to offer it to business customers. Many customers use it for different purposes, but a common use case is for user computer bac...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Caringo Swarm
Scality RING, RING8
 

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Sample Customers

iQ Media, NEP, Texas Tech University, Telefónica, City of Austin, Massive Media, Data Deposit Box, Premier Physician Services, Truliant Federal Credit Union
Comcast, TimeWarner Cable, EuroSport, Orange, Deluxe, DailtMotion, SFR, RTL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Telstra
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