Cloudian HyperStore vs NetApp StorageGRID comparison

Cloudian and NetApp are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Cloudian is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while NetApp is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. Cloudian holds a 2.8% mindshare in FaOS, compared to NetApp’s 5.1% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Cloudian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp StorageGRID are competing in the object storage market. Cloudian HyperStore seems to have the upper hand for businesses focused on cost-effective scalability, while NetApp StorageGRID offers extensive features for higher budget implementations.

Features: Cloudian HyperStore integrates seamlessly, supports hybrid environments, and enables cost-effective scalability, making it a strong choice for growing enterprises. NetApp StorageGRID offers detailed metadata management, efficient tiering, and comprehensive data management features, appealing to organizations with complex data needs.

Room for Improvement: Cloudian HyperStore could enhance data management tools, improve metadata handling, and add more automation features. NetApp StorageGRID can work on simplifying deployment, provide more competitive pricing, and increase the flexibility of its support models to better accommodate smaller teams.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudian HyperStore is known for its adaptable deployment options and straightforward integration process, supported by reliable customer service. In contrast, NetApp StorageGRID requires more intricate setup due to its advanced capabilities but benefits from robust and comprehensive support services.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudian HyperStore offers affordable pricing with a strong focus on ROI, benefiting businesses focused on budget efficiency. NetApp StorageGRID involves a higher initial investment but promises long-term value through its sophisticated features and infrastructure enhancements.

To learn more, read our detailed Cloudian HyperStore vs. NetApp StorageGRID Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Cloudian HyperStore vs. NetApp StorageGRID

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade reduces total cost of ownership by enhancing efficiency, enabling fast restorations, and supporting diverse use cases.

Sentiment score

5.9

Cloudian HyperStore offers cost-effective storage solutions, enhancing ROI through savings, efficient management, and enterprise-level performance despite some issues.

Sentiment score

1.0

NetApp StorageGRID lowers costs by eliminating tape libraries and improving efficiency, offering scalability and revenue-generating opportunities for customers.

It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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In comparison to AWS, within fourteen months, the CAPEX investment pays off due to Cloudian's pricing model.

Vincent Van Der Linden

BDM Benelux at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

There is a lack of customer trust with this product.

Jamie Redford-Brown

Technical Design Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have seen a pretty good ROI with Cloudian HyperStore in terms of reduced storage management overhead, lower cost per terabyte, and improved productivity across teams.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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No quotes available

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade's support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite occasional delays and communication issues, maintaining a favorable reputation.

Sentiment score

5.7

Cloudian HyperStore support is praised for knowledge and responsiveness, but some users face challenges with escalation and efficiency.

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp StorageGRID support is efficient but has mixed reviews due to expertise gaps and reliance on self-support in small markets.

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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The support plus option provides a high level of assistance, including direct second-line support.

Vincent Van Der Linden

BDM Benelux at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

I would rate the customer support for Cloudian HyperStore a 10 out of 10 because they're great.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

I can evaluate that the support interactions were of high quality.

Andrei Bobrov

Lead System engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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When evaluating the technical support of NetApp StorageGRID, I would give it an eight out of ten.

Andres Parts

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

I would rate the support for NetApp StorageGRID as eight out of 10.

Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

That's due to the fact that we haven't implemented all the technical support facilities in NetApp.

Joost Van Der Eijk

Operations manager at ODC-Noord

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in scalability, with seamless expansion, downtime-free growth, and praised support across various sectors.

Sentiment score

7.2

Cloudian HyperStore offers impressive scalability with efficient capacity growth and robust replication, despite some bulk operation issues.

Sentiment score

7.3

NetApp StorageGRID is commended for seamless, non-disruptive scalability and effective handling of large data volumes in enterprise environments.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Cloudian HyperStore's scalability has been awesome; it keeps up with our growing storage needs.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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.

Jamie Redford-Brown

Technical Design Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID has been proven as we've expanded twice.

Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID rates an eight or nine out of ten.

Andres Parts

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers exceptional reliability and impressive stability, featuring 99.999% uptime, seamless upgrades, and high performance.

Sentiment score

8.3

Cloudian HyperStore is generally reliable with high stability, though some users experience issues requiring additional support.

Sentiment score

8.3

NetApp StorageGRID is valued for its reliable performance, redundancy, and effective support, with stability ratings of eight to nine.

In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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No quotes available

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My impression of the stability of NetApp StorageGRID is quite high; from one to ten, I would rate it a nine.

Andres Parts

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

We experienced very little stability issues.

Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Users recommend better pricing, cloud integration, support, documentation, and analytics for Pure Storage FlashBlade, improving efficiency and compatibility.

Cloudian HyperStore requires improved cost management, stability, integration, automation, and user-friendliness, with enhanced API capabilities and transparency.

NetApp StorageGRID's interface is complex, integration and pricing need improvement, and marketing and automated management require enhancement.

Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Its configuration should be easier.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Cloudian HyperStore is already very sophisticated, and no changes are needed as it is ahead of market need.

Vincent Van Der Linden

BDM Benelux at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

It has consistently met our expectations in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

It is important to thoroughly understand customer use cases to tailor the appropriate solution, whether using appliances for performance or software for backup targets.

reviewer2384904

Account Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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They need to focus on a better upgrade path with easier and more resilient upgrades.

Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

It would be great if it could fix internal issues itself without manual intervention.

Gabriele P

Storage IT Specialist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

In terms of functionality, reliability, and scalability, we are satisfied with NetApp.

Joost Van Der Eijk

Operations manager at ODC-Noord

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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costly but valued for performance, reliability, and reduced administrative overhead, justifying its premium price.

Cloudian HyperStore offers cost-effective, competitive pricing and features, making it an attractive option for enterprises seeking sensible financial solutions.

NetApp StorageGRID is expensive yet cost-effective for large-scale storage, with flexible initial investment and negotiable annual licensing.

The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Cloudian HyperStore offers reasonable pricing.

Vincent Van Der Linden

BDM Benelux at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The pricing was competitive.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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.

Jamie Redford-Brown

Technical Design Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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I'd rate the pricing eight out of ten.

Andres Parts

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

It would definitely be more on the expensive side, especially if you compare it with open source solutions like Ceph.

Joost Van Der Eijk

Operations manager at ODC-Noord

From what I understood, it was cheaper than EMC ECS, though this was over seven years ago.

Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade excels with ease of use, fast performance, scalability, seamless integration, and efficient storage features.

Cloudian HyperStore offers scalable, cost-effective storage with strong security, S3 compatibility, easy integration, and excellent data management capabilities.

NetApp StorageGRID offers S3 access, rapid backup, deduplication, scalability, management ease, and integration, enhancing usability and data retrieval.

We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Cloudian HyperStore positively impacts my organization by helping us centralize our data storage across our teams and simplify our infrastructure, meeting our growing demands on storage while maintaining performance and control.

reviewer2733405

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

If any uneventful or unintended delete happens, I have the ability to recover it without going into the backup.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

One of the most significant features of Cloudian is its comprehensive RESTful API stack.

reviewer2384904

Account Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The feature of NetApp StorageGRID that has significantly improved data storage management for my customers is the value of the S3 API because it allows developers who are not infrastructure-oriented to use it and write code against it.

Andres Parts

Sales Director at Proact Estonia AS

NetApp StorageGRID is a great alternative to AWS S3 buckets.

Gabriele P

Storage IT Specialist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

The scalability is very effective for our customers.

Joost Van Der Eijk

Operations manager at ODC-Noord

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Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.3%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudian HyperStore is 2.8%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp StorageGRID is 5.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File and Object Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pure Storage FlashBlade	5.3%
NetApp StorageGRID	5.1%
Cloudian HyperStore	2.8%
Other	86.8%

File and Object Storage

Featured Reviews

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

Has handled backup storage needs reliably and supports seamless upgrades

In environments requiring high throughput and low latency, Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high throughput and normal latency, but we do not have any application that requires low latency right now, so the latency of three to five milliseconds is considered kind of high. Pure Storage FlashBlade's ability to integrate with enterprise applications is not important for us, as we only want to present an S3 bucket for our backup, which we have done, and it works very fast. We use the Purity software's data reduction techniques; we have a backup software that compresses everything before sending it to the S3 bucket, achieving a data reduction of 1.1 to one. I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other companies because it's a very fast and scalable solution for anyone who needs it. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.

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Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Object storage has reduced costs and improves data protection for web application workloads

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.

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Michael Lopez

Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Has reduced storage costs and improved snapshot management for large data workloads

The advanced features of NetApp StorageGRID which our upper management wouldn't agree to use, include the S3 feature. We are heavy into AWS, and my thoughts were to develop a small dev environment or even a POC environment on-prem. That's still up in the air as we continue on. Currently, AI has taken over everything with a focus on AI. The upgrades of NetApp StorageGRID present a challenge. It's a rolling upgrade, node by node. At one point, one node would not upgrade. The positive aspect is that it didn't take down the entire environment. The environment remained functional on two different versions. The scalability of NetApp StorageGRID has been proven as we've expanded twice. We started with six or seven nodes and have grown to 15 nodes. It does take time for synchronization to complete. From what I've seen, it took a couple of months for it all to sync up once adding nodes. However, it was transparent. It captured the addition and performed effectively, all happening in the background, steadily and surely.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making...

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

In my opinion, one way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray...

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What needs improvement with Cloudian HyperStore?

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

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What is your primary use case for Cloudian HyperStore?

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

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What advice do you have for others considering Cloudian HyperStore?

My advice for others looking into using Cloudian HyperStore is to consider it a good product to add to their portfoli...

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What do you like most about NetApp StorageGRID?

The management portals have most significantly improved our data retrieval times. They've made it much easier to rest...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp StorageGRID?

As an administrator, I was not involved in the pricing of NetApp StorageGRID. From what I understood, it was cheaper ...

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What needs improvement with NetApp StorageGRID?

The upgrades of NetApp StorageGRID present challenges. It's a rolling upgrade, node by node. At one point, one node w...

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Also Known As

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HyperStore, Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage, HyperStore Object Storage

Storage GRID

Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

Cloudian HyperStore lets you start small and grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes. Leverage the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API.

Cloudian

Store and manage unstructured data at scale using NetApp StorageGRID for secure, durable object storage. Place content in the right location, at the right time, and on the right storage tier, optimizing workflows and reducing overall costs for globally distributed rich media.

NetApp

Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

NTT Communications, Casale, Kumo

ASE, DARZ GmbH

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