Garage vs HS5

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

Garage

AGPL-3.0

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

LGPL-3.0

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

	Garage	HS5
License	AGPL-3.0	LGPL-3.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	4,635	196
Forks	178	4
Open Issues	2	—
Last Commit	Oct 2, 2026	Sep 23, 2026
First Released	Nov 17, 2021	Feb 19, 2023
Categories	Object Storage	Object Storage
Tags	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage

Garage4,635

HS5

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