juicefs ☆

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Description:
Cloud-based, distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.3.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 2, 2025

Links: Homepage | @juicefs | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Devops

Tags: distributed-file-system cloud-storage posix redis s3 devops

Install: brew install juicefs

About:
JuiceFS is a high-performance, cloud-native distributed file system designed for large-scale data storage. It presents a POSIX-compatible interface, allowing legacy applications to access data stored across diverse object storage services like Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. By leveraging Redis for metadata management, it ensures strong consistency and enables massive scalability for AI, big data, and machine learning workloads.

Key Features:

POSIX-compatible interface for seamless application integration
Decoupled architecture separating metadata (Redis) and data (Object Storage)
High performance with strong consistency and massive scalability
Cloud-native design with support for multiple object storage backends

Use Cases:

Big data analytics and AI/ML model training pipelines
Shared data storage for containerized environments (Kubernetes)
High-performance computing (HPC) workloads requiring cloud storage

Alternatives:

S3FS – JuiceFS generally offers significantly higher performance and better consistency guarantees than S3FS.
Alluxio – JuiceFS is often considered simpler to deploy and manage, focusing specifically on the metadata/data separation model.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 2, 2025 3:26pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	8b86e452
Sep 14, 2024 10:23am		0	VERSION_BUMP	e00363ad