Software-Defined Storage for Private Clouds:
Lightbits vs Ceph

Lightbits delivers more density, better performance, lower latency, and with less hardware than Ceph Storage.

This white paper compares Lightbits and Ceph Storage in terms of architecture, performance, Transactions Per Second, and Total Cost of Ownership, reflecting the current NVMe over TCP operating reality in private clouds:

  • Ceph: Open-source and software-defined block, file, and object storage often used in cloud-native environments.
  • Lightbits software-defined, disaggregated, multi-purpose block storage designed natively with NVMe over TCP

 This paper illustrates the architectural comparisons of both solutions to explain the Lightbits performance advantages. 

The table below shows the IOPS of Lightbits versus Ceph  in a Kubernetes environment. Lightbits delivers up to 16x better performance with lower TCO and enterprise resiliency. Download the white paper for more Lightbits vs Ceph comparisons.

Ceph vs Lightbits I/O Rate

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