Openstack Swift compared to Digital Ocean Spaces

Openstack Swift
Versus
Digital Ocean Spaces

Features

Storage Features of Openstack Swift compared to Digital Ocean Spaces
Openstack SwiftFeaturesDigital Ocean Spaces
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLA
5 GBMaximum object filesize250 GB
Minimum object filesizeFiles smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.
unlimited, with note that it’s not recommended to store more than ~1M, depending on hardware setup for the SQLite indexRecommended max file count per bucketunlimited
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucket250 GB
unlimitedMaximum amount of bucketsunlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.
Logs
Authentication / ACL
CDN integrationSpaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is served
Peering & interconnectCenturylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globe
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions


Openstack Swift


Openstack’s founders, Rackspace and NASA, have created this platform with (public) cloud in mind.

Openstack is completely opensource and freely availalble under the Apache License. Meaning, you’re free to spin up your own cloud using their software. Openstack’s storage solution (Swift) is pluggable to be s3 compatible.

Openstack has many providers offering up their hardware on the openstack IaaS layer. To name a few: Canonical’s Ubuntu Bootstack and TATA’s managed infra services

Openstack’s pluggability is where its true power lies. Its sourcecode is written in Python and actively maintained. They have many performance and security enhancements, as well as plugins ready to be installed.


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).