DigitalOcean Block Storage vs Minio

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DigitalOcean Block Storage vs Minio: What are the differences?

What is DigitalOcean Block Storage? 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.

What is Minio? AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go. Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.

DigitalOcean Block Storage and Minio can be primarily classified as "Cloud Storage" tools.

Minio is an open source tool with 16.9K GitHub stars and 1.59K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Minio's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about DigitalOcean Block Storage and Minio

Minio is a free and open source object storage system. It can be self-hosted and is S3 compatible. During the early stage it would save cost and allow us to move to a different object storage when we scale up. It is also fast and easy to set up. This is very useful during development since it can be run on localhost.

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Pros of DigitalOcean Block Storage
Pros of Minio
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    Easy to use
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    Cheap
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    Store and Serve Resumes & Job Description PDF, Backups
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    S3 Compatible
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    Simple
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    Open Source
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    Encryption and Tamper-Proof
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    Lambda Compute
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    Private Cloud Storage
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    Pluggable Storage Backend
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    Scalable
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    Data Protection
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    Highly Available
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    Performance

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Cons of DigitalOcean Block Storage
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      Deletion of huge buckets is not possible

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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 Minio?

    Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License

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    What are some alternatives to DigitalOcean Block Storage and Minio?
    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.
    Amazon S3
    Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
    Google Cloud Storage
    Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.
    Azure Storage
    Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
    Amazon EBS
    Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.
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