WEKA Alternative
Flexibility, Standards-based, without Performance Penalty
Looking for a WEKA alternative that delivers the same blazing-fast throughput, but without the complexity, vendor lock-in, or reliance on high-end networking? Simplyblock is a performance-first, cloud-native block storage platform that offers exceptional IOPS per core, NVMe-over-TCP compatibility, and enterprise-grade efficiency—all in a lightweight, software-defined solution.
Customer Challenges faced with WEKA
RDMA Dependency
WEKA's performance relies on RDMA/InfiniBand, limiting flexibility and increases infrastructure costs with specialized networking gear.
Proprietary Stack Lock-In
WEKA is tightly coupled to its own orchestration layer, limiting portability and increasing the risk of long-term vendor lock-in.
Costly Scaling Model
WEKA’s tiering and replication models can become expensive at scale, especially when paired with premium hardware and RDMA fabrics.
Simplyblock as the Weka Alternative
⚙️ Deployment Comparison
Simplyblock provides high IOPS performance and low latency without requiring RDMA or vendor-controlled hardware. With up to 250,000 IOPS per CPU core and sub-0.1ms latency, Simplyblock delivers consistent throughput over standard Ethernet using NVMe-over-TCP—built directly into the Linux kernel. It supports flexible deployment models including hyperconverged, disaggregated, and hybrid, making it ideal for Kubernetes environments.
Weka, in contrast, is designed around a high-performance file system that depends on RDMA or InfiniBand to achieve its speed. Its disaggregated, appliance-like design favors analytics-heavy workloads, but lacks the agility and native compatibility for block-based, containerized applications. Scaling WEKA often means scaling expensive hardware, networking, and software licenses in parallel.
🧱 Architecture Comparison
Simplyblock’s lightweight, container-native architecture separates control and data planes, allowing seamless orchestration through Kubernetes and CSI. Its intelligent engine combines erasure coding, caching, and tiering to maximize performance and minimize overhead. Designed around NVMe-first principles, it maintains ultra-low latency without RDMA or metadata bottlenecks.
WEKA’s architecture is a distributed POSIX file system optimized for metadata-heavy, large-scale analytics. While powerful for AI and ML workloads, it introduces extra layers that aren’t needed—and often hinder performance—for transactional, latency-sensitive block workloads. Its reliance on specialized networking and tightly integrated control paths adds operational complexity.
Simplyblock, in contrast, is lean, standards-based, and optimized for fast, efficient block storage in modern compute environments, while still providing the capacity and performance required for AI and ML use cases.
Why Customers Prefer Simplyblock
Simplyblock outperforms Weka in key performance dimensions while reducing complexity and cost:
Higher IOPS per Core
Simplyblock delivers up to 50x more IOPS per core than traditional storage stacks—perfect for cloud-native databases and Kubernetes workloads.
No RDMA Required
Achieve ultra-low latency and high throughput using standard Ethernet and NVMe/TCP, avoiding the cost and complexity of InfiniBand.
True Cloud-Native Integration
Designed from the ground up for container environments, simplyblock offers automatic scaling, and intelligent workload placement.