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Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Sia

Digital Ocean Spaces
Versus
Sia

Features

Storage Features of Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Sia
Digital Ocean SpacesFeaturesSia
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesCLI, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLAFlexible, defined in smart contract
250 GBMaximum object filesize35 TB, files should be uploaded in segments of 40 MB
Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.Minimum object filesize40 MB
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket35 TB
250 GBMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
unlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Spaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is servedCDN integration
Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globePeering & interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean is one of the few companies that grew over time and actually made it to the champions leage of Cloud Hosting Providers. It’s only logical DO should offer an object storage solution.

Digital Ocean has established itself over the years as being developer friendly, posting an abundance of useful Sysadmin/developer articles. The value and quality of their blog closely represents their product, which is clean, has good concise documentation, and works great.

Their clients include InfluxDB and Edge Compute company Section; (see our srvrlss profile on them).

Sia

Decentralized storage service Sia has been around since 2014, originally incorporated as Nebulous Inc.

Sia launched their Cryptocurrency by the end of 2015. Early investors have since seen an incredible increase of the currencies value by over 18.000 times the initial price. Before launching their Cryptocurrency a Whitepaper was published with details on how Nebulous/Sia expected to see the network grow, describing their storage capacity algorithm and more.

Sia uses smart contracts to ensure SLAs on uptime, pricing and more. Sia is open source and written in Golang.

Sia is one of the storage backends for Filebase. Investors of Sia include Procyon Ventures and Raptor Group

Comparisons