Alternative to Hammerspace
Modernize your storage infrastructure without sacrificing performance and convenience.
Looking for an alternative to Hammerspace that delivers superior IOPS, lower latency, and cloud-native flexibility? Simplyblock offers a modern NVMe-first architecture purpose-built for high-performance Kubernetes workloads—perfect for replacing legacy data orchestration layers with Hammerspace.
Challenges with Hammerspace
Performance Bottlenecks
Designed for file-based global data environments, Hammerspace lacks native NVMe optimization, limiting performance in block-level, IO-intensive workloads.
Complexity and Cost Overhead
Managing a global namespace with metadata services across edge and core infrastructure introduces complexity and overhead, especially for high-throughput applications.
Limited Native Cloud Optimization
While cloud-compatible, Hammerspace isn’t designed with cost-efficient cloud-native architectures like tiering, erasure coding, or ephemeral disk optimization in mind.
Hardware Dependency
Full performance often relies on specific hardware configurations or appliances, reducing flexibility and increasing vendor lock-in.
🔁 Deployment Comparison
Hammerspace focuses primarily on managing file-level metadata services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. While effective for global namespace orchestration, this architecture is not optimized for block-level, high-performance storage needs.
In contrast, Simplyblock offers three deployment models designed for maximum flexibility and performance. These include a hyperconverged setup where storage runs alongside applications on the same Kubernetes nodes, a disaggregated model where storage is separated into its own cluster, and a hybrid approach that combines both. Simplyblock’s deployment flexibility allows it to adapt to diverse workloads while maximizing the benefits of local NVMe and cloud-native technologies like NVMe over TCP.
🧱 Architecture Comparison
Hammerspace uses a global file system and metadata abstraction layer, ideal for data orchestration but not tuned for latency-critical, block-level performance.
Simplyblock deploys a streamlined, container-native NVMe-over-TCP architecture, eliminating legacy overhead and maximizing local NVMe performance. It combines local caching, erasure coding, and thin provisioning for superior efficiency and IO throughput.
Benefits of Simplyblock
Built for Performance
NVMe-first design achieves up to 250,000 IOPS per CPU core and sub-100µs latency, ideal for database and analytics workloads.
Lower Cost, Higher Efficiency
Modern erasure coding and intelligent tiering deliver up to 3–5x better storage efficiency vs. replication-heavy models.
True Cloud-Native Flexibility
Fully containerized, runs across any infrastructure, supports dynamic scaling, and reduces cloud storage TCO by up to 5x.