openstack/swift
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: n/a
- age_days: 5887
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 8
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2794 stars · 1075 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
OpenStack Swift is a distributed object storage system that scales from a single machine to thousands of servers, optimized for multi-tenancy and high concurrency. It exposes a simple REST-based API (with S3 API compatibility) for storing unstructured data such as backups, web and mobile content, and other unbounded data.
Use cases
- self-host an S3-compatible object store for backups
- store and serve web and mobile content at scale
- build a multi-tenant storage cloud for unstructured data
- replace or complement cloud object storage with on-premise infrastructure
- store large amounts of log files, images, or media that grow without bound
- provide a REST API for object storage across thousands of servers
When to choose
- you need a proven, battle-tested distributed object store that scales horizontally to thousands of nodes
- you are already running OpenStack or want tight integration with its ecosystem
- you need multi-tenancy and high concurrency for many simultaneous clients
- you want an S3-compatible API on self-hosted infrastructure
- you need eventual-consistency guarantees with built-in replication and repair
When to avoid
- you only need simple file storage on a single server or NAS
- you want block or POSIX filesystem semantics rather than object storage
- you need strong consistency for every read and write
- your team cannot operate a multi-service distributed cluster (proxy, storage, consistency workers)
- you just need a lightweight S3 gateway in front of existing disks
Facets
service · maturity stable
http-server api-framework object-storage caching security cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted microservices files backend python self-hosted cloud object-storage openstack rest-api s3-compatible distributed-storage multi-tenancy backup-storage linux docker
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/openstack/swift · fetched 2026-08-28 · 6223536bf464
- homepage: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift · fetched 2026-08-29 · 937ce4db42a3
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift/commit/3064444bf433dfb7ade3d91130b58f7bceae9add · fetched 2026-08-29 · 018e50666cc7
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift/commit/9f5881d5143fd06a328bde2713cd9c61df579289 · fetched 2026-08-29 · c52e3087e728
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift/src/branch/master/CHANGELOG · fetched 2026-08-29 · f2a9a3f22d64
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift/commit/9f6709d3292b8ca40c13294bcae7de1d2f7d8093 · fetched 2026-08-29 · f9e22052fb89
- site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/swift/commit/78cce72f8a495dd7b2daf50623c60348fcb95adf · fetched 2026-08-29 · 896fca4d65f2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| openstack/swift | main | 77 |
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