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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.
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.
Pros of DigitalOcean Block Storage
- Easy to use1
- Cheap1
Pros of Minio
- Store and Serve Resumes & Job Description PDF, Backups10
- S3 Compatible8
- Simple4
- Open Source4
- Encryption and Tamper-Proof3
- Lambda Compute3
- Private Cloud Storage2
- Pluggable Storage Backend2
- Scalable2
- Data Protection2
- Highly Available2
- Performance1
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Cons of DigitalOcean Block Storage
Cons of Minio
- Deletion of huge buckets is not possible3