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Hadn't heard of SSDB before, looks promising, active, variety of users, broad client support.

Off the top of my head, if I were trying to front AWS S3 from DigitalOcean, I'd have gone with MinIO and their AWS S3 gateway[1]. It appears to be purpose built for this exact kind of problem.

[1] https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-gateway-for-s3.html

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It seems to be popular only in China [0]

0: http://ssdb.io/docs/users.html

so?

You might face a language barrier when trying to find answers from the community: For example it looks like most of the discussion on the issues and pull requests are in Chinese. I do not believe Google Translate does well with technical terms.

(Of course this is a concern only if you don't read Chinese.)

Last I checked, DigitalOcean has a "Spaces" feature for file storage, which is compatible with the AWS S3 API (and they even suggest using the AWS client library).

I always found it odd that we can easily port apps, databases, etc., from one cloud to another, but for file storage/CDN it's always some proprietary solution like S3. AFAIK open source solutions never really took off.

The article mentions they looked at Spaces, but it was too slow.

Yep, that's why we only use Spaces for backups.

https://wakatime.com/blog/46-latency-of-digitalocean-spaces-...

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