MinIO
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 79
- Release rhythm 52
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 11.5
- age_days: 4249
- days_rel: 321
- days_push: 131
- n_releases_24m: 25
Adoption not part of the score
61374 stars · 7811 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server written in Go, released under AGPLv3, with client SDKs (Go, Java, JS, Python), a CLI (mc), and a Kubernetes operator. The open-source community repository is no longer maintained; development has moved to the commercial AIStor editions, with the community edition available as source only.
Use cases
- self-host s3 compatible object storage
- store ml training data and model artifacts
- replace amazon s3 in private cloud
- object storage backend for kubernetes workloads
- build data lake on commodity hardware
- test s3 integrations locally
- backup target for databases and applications
When to choose
- you need an S3-compatible API on your own infrastructure
- you want high-throughput storage for AI/ML or analytics pipelines
- you need multi-cloud or on-premises object storage with a Kubernetes operator
- you want a lightweight local S3 substitute for development and testing
When to avoid
- you need vendor support, prebuilt binaries, or guaranteed maintenance - the community edition is source-only and no longer maintained
- your project cannot comply with AGPLv3 obligations
- you need block or file storage rather than object storage
- you rely on long-term community security patches for the open-source edition
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
object-storage self-hosted cloud api-gateway cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted developer-tools go windows self-hosted cloud s3-compatible object-store storage kubernetes-operator agpl multi-cloud ai-ml-storage data-engineering docker kubernetes linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/minio/minio · fetched 2026-08-28 · a64009bc7819
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| minio/minio | main | 10 |
| minio/mc | plugin | 10 |
| minio/minio-go | sdk | 99 |
| minio/operator | infra | 10 |
| minio/minio-java | sdk | 86 |
| minio/minio-js | sdk | 85 |
| minio/minio-py | sdk | 85 |
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