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MinIO pros and cons

Vendor: MinIO
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

MinIO is praised for its ease of management and seamless administration capabilities.
Its ability to spawn and shut down tenants on demand enhances its flexibility for development and testing environments.
MinIO offers compatibility with various storage types and features robust erasure coding for data protection.
It supports AWS S3-compatible APIs, facilitating the creation of buckets and the basic functionalities of object storage.
MinIO's performance is efficient, with capabilities like replication and active directory integration being highlighted.

CONS

Monitoring capabilities need significant improvement and the expansion of size post-deployment is not currently supported.
Multi-tenancy features are inadequate, leading to a need for custom solutions to track instances.
Documentation is insufficient, especially for non-Kubernetes users and certain languages like Python.
Security concerns exist as SSL is not enabled by default.
Scalability and performance issues present significant challenges.
 

MinIO Pros review quotes

MS
Technical Lead and Senior Java Developer at Novin High-Tech Solutions
Jul 6, 2020
The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration.
NS
Assistant Vice President at DBS Bank
Aug 15, 2021
The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable.
FC
senior software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 7, 2021
Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments.
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RS
Chief Technical Officer at NIASE
Sep 9, 2021
Very good at object retrieval.
it_user1684911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 30, 2021
For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object.
OD
Product Owner at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2021
The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage.
PM
Senior Engineer- Cloud/Big Data System Software Research at Samsung Electronics
Oct 5, 2021
The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers.
AU
Software Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 12, 2021
MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection.
NK
Chief Architect for NirvaShare at Nirvato
Nov 2, 2021
The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed.
reviewer1711263 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Nov 7, 2021
Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents.
 

MinIO Cons review quotes

MS
Technical Lead and Senior Java Developer at Novin High-Tech Solutions
Jul 6, 2020
The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved.
NS
Assistant Vice President at DBS Bank
Aug 15, 2021
There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support.
FC
senior software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 7, 2021
Documentation could be improved.
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RS
Chief Technical Officer at NIASE
Sep 9, 2021
The solution lacks documentation.
it_user1684911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 30, 2021
The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance.
OD
Product Owner at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 8, 2021
We had minor bugs occasionally.
PM
Senior Engineer- Cloud/Big Data System Software Research at Samsung Electronics
Oct 5, 2021
The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object.
AU
Software Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 12, 2021
MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens.
NK
Chief Architect for NirvaShare at Nirvato
Nov 2, 2021
The product's security is open by default, without any SSL.
reviewer1711263 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Nov 7, 2021
Limited storage provided in the free version.