Alarik vs Garage

Comparing two open source alternatives to MinIO and RustFS . Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Alarik

Apache-2.0

High-performance S3-compatible object storage written in Swift, designed as a modern open alternative to MinIO.

AGPL-3.0

S3-compatible distributed object storage designed for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments, built in Rust.

	Alarik	Garage
License	Apache-2.0	AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	309	4,088
Forks	1	155
Open Issues	1	2
Last Commit	Jul 6, 2026	Jul 7, 2026
First Released	Dec 6, 2025	Nov 17, 2021
Categories	Object Storage	Object Storage
Tags	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage

High-performance Rust-based S3-compatible object storage with deduplication, SQL queries, and federation.

Distributed storage system with S3-compatible object storage, POSIX file system, and Iceberg table support for billions of files.

S3 gateway that translates S3 API requests to filesystem, Azure Blob, ScoutFS, or other S3 backends.

High-performance S3-compatible object storage built in Rust, 2.3x faster than MinIO with Apache 2.0 licensing.

High-performance single-node S3-compatible object storage focused on scale-up performance, built in C++.