We performed a comparison between MinIO and Scality RING based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"It performs efficiently compared to other solutions."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 14th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Dell PowerScale (Isilon), whereas Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo, Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp StorageGRID. See our MinIO vs. Scality RING report.
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