# SeaweedFS

46 Hacker News commenters recommended SeaweedFS and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-source S3-compatible object store recommended for local development, CI and self-hosting, with strong performance. Critics call it immature on reliability.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy to run locally (4 comments): "SeaweedFS, especially with their new `weed mini` command that runs all the services together in one process is a great replacement for local development and CI purposes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001103)) "Just download the single binary, for most platforms, and run "weed mini -dir=your_data_directory"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011294)) "run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764897))
- Strong performance benchmarks (4 comments): "SeaweedFS performance is the best in almost all categories in a user's test" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142851)) "RustFS and SeaweedFS are the fastest in the object storage field." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004266)) "SeaweedFS has at least 3–5× better performance than MinIO." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011731))
- Broad S3 API support (4 comments): "Settled with SeaweedFS for replacing minio and getting a good chunk of S3 feature parity." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760083)) "which supports S3 table buckets and Iceberg catalog and maintenance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354186)) "SeaweedFS now should have the most complete S3 API support now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718244))
- Handles small files well (2 comments): "SeaweedFS handles lots of small files gracefully because it doesn't just naively store one object per file on the filesystem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809222)) "With its distributed append-only storage, it naturally fits object store." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011107))

## What people warn about

- Immature reliability, frequent feature churn (2 comments): "Too many features are added in each new release, no stabilization time at all." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712403)) "the project is still immature from a reliability perspective in my opinion" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140514))
- Fails under concurrent writes (2 comments): "SeaweedFS failing under concurrent writes when backing Sentry" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328742)) "the former kept failing under concurrent writes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711081))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Garage S3 object store](https://hackerapproved.com/p/garage.md): 83 recommend
- [MinIO](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minio.md): 54 recommend
- [RustFS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rustfs.md): 48 recommend
- [VersityGW](https://hackerapproved.com/p/versitygw.md): 16 recommend
- [Versity S3 Gateway](https://hackerapproved.com/p/versity-s3-gateway.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "SeaweedFS", https://hackerapproved.com/p/seaweedfs/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).