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OVH Object Storage compared to Sia

OVH Object Storage
Versus
Sia

Features

Storage Features of OVH Object Storage compared to Sia
OVH Object StorageFeaturesSia
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
OVH commits to an uptime of more than 99.9%, which means 43 minutes of allowed downtime on a monthly baseSLAFlexible, defined in smart contract
5TB, given files are uploaded in segments of 1 GBMaximum object filesize35 TB, files should be uploaded in segments of 40 MB
Minimum object filesize40 MB
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket35 TB
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
unlimitedMaximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACL
CDN integration
Peering & interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

OVH Object Storage

OVH has been around in the cloud hosting world for a very long time. In the 20 years they’ve been in the hosting industry, they have certainly earned their stripes.

OVH’s public cloud storage offering is quite literally a hosted version of Openstack Swift in the past, they’re putting more effort into creating a better value-add, with slick documentation and to-the-point FAQ.

A big advantage for European companies is that OVH’s Object Storage is completely GDPR compliant.

Clients of OVH’s storage product are not disclosed, making privacy sort of a feature.

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