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DigitalOcean Block Storage vs iCloud: What are the differences?
Developers describe DigitalOcean Block Storage as "Attach highly available and scalable SSD-based Block Storage to your Droplet". Add more storage space, mix and match compute and storage to suit your database, file storage, application, service, mobile, and backup needs. On the other hand, iCloud is detailed as "*A cloud storage and cloud computing service *". Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services.
DigitalOcean Block Storage and iCloud can be categorized as "Cloud Storage" tools.
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What is DigitalOcean Block Storage?
Add more storage space, mix and match compute and storage to suit your database, file storage, application, service, mobile, and backup needs.
What is iCloud?
Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services.
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What are some alternatives to DigitalOcean Block Storage and iCloud?
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces are designed to make it easy and cost effective to store and serve massive amounts of data. Spaces are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.


