Storj compared to Digital Ocean Spaces

Storj
Versus
Digital Ocean Spaces

Features

Storage Features of Storj compared to Digital Ocean Spaces
StorjFeaturesDigital Ocean Spaces
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
CLI, self-hosted s3 REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLA
Maximum object filesize250 GB
Minimum object filesizeFiles smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.
Recommended max file count per bucketunlimited
Max filesize for a bucket250 GB
300Maximum 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


Storj


Second-generation Cloud Storage Provider Storj, previously known as Tardigrade.io is a second-generation cloud storage provider, not unlike Filebase. Actually, it’s the other way around… Filebase can leverage Storj as underlying storage provider.

Storj is capitalizing on the power of Blockchain to ensure global storage redundancy. Storj’s storage network consists of thousands and thousands of (user-run) nodes across more than 80 countries.

A Node’s reputation, latency, and a random weight decide if a Node is assigned to store your files. This way Storj makes sure your files will be accessible even if you unplug your local NAS connected to Storj.

Storj makes sure there are at least 3 to 4 copies of the file stored across multiple nodes in the network in the same “Satellite”, which is a region like Americas, Asia Pacific or Europe.


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).