Garage vs RustFS

Comparing two open source alternatives to MinIO. 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.

Apache-2.0

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

	Garage	RustFS
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	4,635	34,371
Forks	178	1,545
Open Issues	2	57
Last Commit	Oct 2, 2026	Oct 4, 2026
First Released	Nov 17, 2021	Nov 23, 2023
Categories	Object Storage	Object Storage
Tags	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage

Garage4,635

RustFS

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 written in Swift, designed as a modern open alternative to MinIO.

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