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lakeFS vs aistore
lakeFS has 5,575 GitHub stars, 490 forks, 443 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. aistore has 1,952 stars, 293 forks, 5 open issues and last shipped yesterday. lakeFS leads on adoption by 186% (5,575 vs 1,952 stars). lakeFS is written in Go under a custom or non-standard licence; aistore is written in Go under MIT. lakeFS has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, aistore 15%. aistore was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| lakeFS | aistore | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 5.6K | ★ 2.0K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-01 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 490 | ⑂ 293 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick lakeFS if
- You weight community size — 5.6K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick aistore if
- You want the aistore feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and aistore fits your workflow better
About lakeFS
lakeFS is Data Version Control (Git for Data) lakeFS is an open source tool that transforms your object storage into a Git like repository. It enables you to manage your data lake the way you manage your code. With lakeFS you can build repeatable, atomic, and versioned data lake operations from complex ETL jobs to data science and analytics. lakeFS supports AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage as its underlying storage service. It is API compatible with S3 and works seamlessly with all modern data frameworks such as Spark, Hive, AWS Athena, DuckDB, and Presto. For more information, see the…
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About aistore
AIStore: High Performance, Scalable Storage for AI Workloads AIStore (AIS) is a lightweight distributed storage stack tailored for AI applications. It's an elastic cluster that can grow and shrink at runtime and can be ad hoc deployed, with or without Kubernetes, anywhere from a single Linux machine to a bare metal cluster of any size. Built from scratch, AIS provides linear scale out, consistent performance, and a flexible deployment model. AIS is a reliable storage cluster that can natively operate on both in cluster and remote data, without treating either as a cache. AIS consistently shows balanced I/O…
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Frequently asked questions
Is lakeFS or aistore more popular?
lakeFS has 5,575 GitHub stars and aistore has 1,952. lakeFS has the larger community by that measure.
Are lakeFS and aistore free?
Both are open source. lakeFS has no licence declared in this registry, and aistore is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between lakeFS and aistore?
lakeFS is written in Go and aistore in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, lakeFS or aistore?
Choose lakeFS if you want the larger community (5,575 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose aistore if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.