Comment by ecshafer

4 months ago

Ceph is an open source project run by a foundation. Minio is a company backed by VCs looking for a return. There is also seaweedfs, powerscale, openstack swift and hyperstore. The S3 compatible space is crowded.

As a user of Ceph it does feel like a truly open source project. Redhat/IBM do sponsor a lot of work on the project but there are lots of other contributors. I have contributed maybe a dozen changes myself and it was quite easy to do and the maintainers are fairly responsive.