Software-Defined Storage for Private Clouds:
Lightbits vs Ceph

To meet evolving application requirements, enterprises in industries from e-commerce to financial services to healthcare are building private clouds and are turning to software-defined storage for their data platform. These modern storage solutions deliver highly scalable capacity and performance with greater efficiency at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than storage-attached networks (SAN), directed-attached storage (DAS), or hyper-converged infrastructure.

This white paper compares two software-defined storage solutions suited for private clouds:

• Ceph: Open-source and software-defined block, file, and object storage often used in cloud-native environments.

• The Lightbits cloud data platform from Lightbits Labs: Software-defined, disaggregated, and composable block storage architected from the ground up for cloud environments.

The result: Lightbits delivers up to 16x better performance with lower TCO and enterprise resiliency. This paper illustrates the architectural comparisons of both solutions to explain the Lightbits performance advantages.