Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Red Hat Gluster Storage Report (Updated: June 2024).

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Red Hat Ceph Storage vs. Red Hat Gluster Storage

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (2nd)

Red Hat Gluster Storage

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the market share of Red Hat Ceph Storage is 21.7% and it decreased by 10.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of Red Hat Gluster Storage is 3.0% and it increased by 7.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Unique Categories:

File and Object Storage

26.0%

No other categories found

Featured Reviews

reviewer1125696

UNIX Security Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 26, 2022

Enables increased resilience but lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication

The solution is used for block storage for an OpenStack environment. I'm the Information Team Lead The product allows our OpenStack environment to move away from the classic network type of backend storage. It enables increased resilience using commodity hardware pricing and that is a major…

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Sebastian Baszczyj

Open Source Architect at Insentra

Nov 7, 2023

A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team

The performance depends on how the tool is implemented. Many customers were implementing the cluster on top of virtual machines. We do not know whether the performance issues were with the virtualized storage or something else. I implement the solution for customers. My recommendation would depend on the requirements of an organization. The tool can be used for everything. It will be perfect for searching logs and files. However, the product will not be suitable for databases. I would recommend running high-performance applications for databases on top of the solution. For the ease of implementation and usability, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is pretty stable."

"Replicated and erasure coded pools have allowed for multiple copies to be kept, easy scale-out of additional nodes, and easy replacement of failed hard drives. The solution continues working even when there are errors."

"It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits."

"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability."

"The most valuable feature is the stability of the product."

"The ability to provide block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster is very valuable for us."

"The high availability of the solution is important to us."

"High reliability with commodity hardware."

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"The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."

"It's very easy to upgrade storage."

"The technical support team is excellent."

Cons

"It needs a better UI for easier installation and management."

"I have encountered issues with stability when replication factor was not 3, which is the default and recommended value. Go below 3 and problems will arise."

"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."

"In the deployment step, we need to create some config files to add Ceph functions in OpenStack modules (Nova, Cinder, Glance). It would be useful to have a tool that validates the format of the data in those files, before generating a deploy with failures."

"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

"We have encountered slight integration issues."

"Please create a failback solution for OpenStack replication and maybe QoS to allow guaranteed IOPS."

"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."

More Red Hat Ceph Storage cons

"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."

"The user interface could be simplified."

"The performance of the solution must be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you can afford a product like Red Hat Ceph Storage then go for it. If you cannot, then you need to test Ceph and get your hands dirty."

"The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."

"The price of this product isn't high."

"There is no cost for software."

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."

"We never used the paid support."

"The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."

More Red Hat Ceph Storage pricing and cost advice

"If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?

Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...

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What do you like most about Red Hat Ceph Storage?

The high availability of the solution is important to us.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Ceph Storage?

Some documentation is very hard to find. The documentation must be quickly available.

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What do you like most about Red Hat Gluster Storage?

The technical support team is excellent.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Gluster Storage?

The performance of the solution must be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Red Hat Gluster Storage?

The solution is used in banks and financial institutions. Customers use the replicated configuration for high availability. They either use the native Gluster client or configure it with NFS. Custo...

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Comparisons

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Compared 49% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

Pure Storage FlashBlade vs Red Hat Ceph Storage

Compared 3% of the time

NetApp StorageGRID vs Red Hat Ceph Storage

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

LizardFS vs Red Hat Gluster Storage

Compared 11% of the time

LINBIT SDS vs Red Hat Gluster Storage

Compared 8% of the time

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Red Hat Gluster Storage

Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Ceph

Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server

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Overview

Red Hat Ceph Storage is an enterprise open source platform that provides unified software-defined storage on standard, economical servers and disks. With block, object, and file storage combined into one platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage efficiently and automatically manages all your data.

Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

Sample Customers

Dell, DreamHost

NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio

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