Garage vs S4Core

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.

Apache-2.0

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

	Garage	S4Core
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	4,381	436
Forks	168	15
Open Issues	2	3
Last Commit	Aug 19, 2026	Apr 30, 2026
First Released	Nov 17, 2021	Jan 31, 2026
Categories	Object Storage	Object Storage
Tags	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage

Garage4,381

S4Core

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.

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