Cloudian HyperStore for AWS Hybrid Edge

My main use case for Cloudian HyperStore  is S3  storage. I use S3  storage with Cloudian HyperStore  for a web deployed application. I mainly use Cloudian HyperStore for web applications.

The best features Cloudian HyperStore offers in my experience are versioning, replication, and erasure coding.

Versioning has made the biggest difference for my team because fault tolerance has improved with versioning. If any uneventful or unintended delete happens, I have the ability to recover it without going into the backup.

Cloudian HyperStore has positively impacted my organization by reducing costs, which is one of the biggest advantages I can see from Cloudian HyperStore. If I compare it with block and NAS  storage, I actually get very decent performance in S3 storage while getting the storage at an extremely cheaper rate compared to other block storage or file storage options.

Cloudian HyperStore can be improved by making upgrades easier. Currently, I see that upgrades are very complicated, and most of the time I require Cloudian support whenever I want to upgrade. I think Cloudian has the opportunity to improve in self-service capabilities. If they make upgrades less vendor-dependent, that would be beneficial.

I would also like to add that more automation APIs would be valuable. If more APIs were available for S3 compatible tasks, that would be great.

I rate the product eight because if they make updates easier, make firmware upgrades easier, make compaction available on CMC instead of requiring scripts, make node cleanup straightforward, make forecasting simple, make capacity planning easy, and provide self-healing opportunities, I believe the rating would be a ten.

I have been using Cloudian HyperStore for two years.

Cloudian HyperStore is stable.

Cloudian HyperStore's scalability is not as good as I wanted it to be because if I want to add anything new to the current environment, the process is extremely lengthy and takes a lot of time. Scalability can be a challenge from time to time.

Customer support is very good, especially during United States hours. If it is any other country's time zone, things can be a bit challenging.

We were using Amazon S3, but we switched because we wanted an on-premises solution rather than a public cloud.

I have seen a return on investment with Cloudian HyperStore. The return on investment is present, although I do not have the metrics, so I cannot share specific details.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good, although I was not a part of the licensing, product cost, and deployment discussions. From what I have heard, it has been good.

Before choosing Cloudian HyperStore, we evaluated MinIO  and Dell ECS before settling on Cloudian HyperStore.

My advice to others looking into using Cloudian HyperStore is to do rigorous testing in your environment, and if the solution fits your needs, pursue it.

Cloudian HyperStore is a good product with scopes of improvement, and if Cloudian can actually work on the inputs provided to them from time to time, it is going to be a very strong S3 product. I gave this product a rating of eight out of ten.

My main use case for Cloudian HyperStore  is for immutable backup storage.

I use Cloudian HyperStore  for immutable backup storage by backing up using standard on-premises storage solutions, and then I backup copy those backups to the immutable storage as a way to archive that data.

I do not have anything else to add about my use case with Cloudian HyperStore that is unique about how my team approaches it.

Cloudian HyperStore's best features include using the S3  storage for things such as S3  FUSE to connect to our IaaS  environment and give customers a STaaS option for S3 storage as well.

Cloudian HyperStore has not positively impacted my organization in terms of improvements, efficiencies, or outcomes that I have seen.

Cloudian HyperStore can be improved by replacing the Cassandra  database since it seems to struggle.

I would add that the documentation for Cloudian HyperStore is good, as they have it built into Cloudian itself, but I think the support struggles in an enterprise environment.

I have been using Cloudian HyperStore for around two or three years.

Cloudian HyperStore is stable in specific use cases, but in my use case, it is not.

I found that the performance of Cloudian HyperStore suffers at scale, where the Cassandra  database struggles to keep up with bulk deletes and bulk requests.

Cloudian HyperStore can scale if one has the right use case.

Cloudian HyperStore's customer support is poor.

I have not previously used a different solution; this is my first solution, but I will be moving off it soon.

I cannot share any specific metrics regarding return on investment for Cloudian HyperStore, but I can say that the return on investment is struggling. The initial cost has not been recouped because of performance issues, leading to a lack of customer trust with this product, as I cannot sell it quickly enough before the new licensing costs hit, resulting in losing money by the end.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cloudian HyperStore indicates that it is a cheap product, and the licenses are cheap as well. When comparing them to other competitors for actual hardware, it is the cheaper option. If one had a use case for a small cluster for S3, it would be a good solution, but I think solutions such as Wasabi  are perhaps the better option for smaller deployments. Overall, it is still cheap.

Before choosing Cloudian HyperStore, I reviewed other options such as Scality at the time.

My advice for others looking into using Cloudian HyperStore is to consider it a good product to add to their portfolio, as long as they fully understand the drawbacks of things such as using the Cassandra database. If one plans to use a particularly talkative backup product or a product that will utilize S3 in a way with multiple single-paste commands at scale, I think it will struggle. However, if one uses Cloudian HyperStore on performant hardware and a performant network, it could probably shine in certain use cases.

My additional thoughts about Cloudian HyperStore are that you definitely need to research the best use cases for S3 and understand the product behind the scenes, rather than just seeing the S3 up front and believing that it is all the same as an AWS  S3 solution. It is crucial to comprehend the hardware you are buying and the database behind the scenes that serves all your metadata and manages your tokens, which also needs to be performant. For instance, Veeam backups might not work well, but if you use Cloudian HyperStore for AI-type solutions, then it could work well.

I rate this product a 3 out of 10.

My main use case for Cloudian HyperStore  was a private cloud in a data center which was restricted from the internet, so I needed S3  storage and an S3  storage solution which could work autonomously in the data center.

Cloudian HyperStore  offers excellent documentation and clear diagrams, and the application itself has a user-friendly interface which was beneficial for managing resources. We used some of our compute resources and storage resources for Cloudian, and it worked effectively. We made backups and established S3 connection from Kubernetes  resources. We managed our problem disks, and sometimes we replaced disks, and Cloudian provided clear instructions on what to do with the replacements.

My experience with the UI involved common administrative tasks such as disk replacement, providing volume, changing volume, and providing S3 bucket.

Cloudian HyperStore impacted my organization positively because we started to use it at least eight years ago, and at that time, we did not have many choices on the market, and I do not recall a truly good enterprise solution for using S3 storage in a private data center. Cloudian HyperStore has many years of experience on the market, so it should be a strong option.

I cannot provide current feedback on needed improvements because for the last four years, I did not use Cloudian HyperStore, so my experience may be outdated regarding recent changes. Everything was excellent, and I had a truly good experience, which I can confirm for any other architects who are going to use Cloudian HyperStore.

I have been working in my current field for four years at this place.

Cloudian HyperStore is stable.

Regarding Cloudian HyperStore's scalability, we had 200 physical servers with many disks inside.

I had a good experience with customer support because we had several calls, and I can evaluate that the support interactions were of high quality.

I did not switch to a different solution before Cloudian HyperStore, and I did not use any other solution in the private cloud. I had some good experience with Amazon and Google Cloud  after that, but this is not a switch as I had left the company. I believe they still use Cloudian HyperStore.

I have seen a return on investment because we covered our requirements. We really needed S3 storage at an enterprise level, so we solved it.

Before choosing Cloudian HyperStore, I did not evaluate other options, but I should refresh my knowledge about the current situation on the market because for the last five years, many other enterprise solutions have become available.

I can advise others looking into using Cloudian HyperStore as a strong enterprise solution with many years of experience on the market, and I cannot compare it with other solutions for private data centers. I can compare it with cloud solutions such as S3 Amazon or Google Cloud , but I think it is different because you do not need to manage your resources with those providers. I would definitely advise Cloudian HyperStore for private clouds. I gave this product a rating of 9 out of 10.