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# Sheepdog Reviews
**Vendor:** Nippon Telegraph and Telephone  
**Category:** [Runtime Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/runtime)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Sheepdog
Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container services and manages the disks and nodes intelligently. Sheepdog features ease of use, simplicity of code and can scale out to thousands of nodes.




## Sheepdog Reviews
  ### 1. A completely revolutionary database system

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Divya A. | Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022

**What do you like best about Sheepdog?**

Sheepdog is excellent in terms of what its was built for. It is a distributed database like Hadoop but without a single point of failure. It can scale horizontally without needing any proprietary hardware, just your normal laptop and PC will also work if you have space. It uses consistent hashing to decide where to store what. It uses totem ring protocol thus using corosync cluster engine to avoid a store for the metadata of the object stored inside the nodes.

**What do you dislike about Sheepdog?**

There are two things I dont like about it are: they did not hire a proper ux/ui designer and did not make a user friendly software and the fact that I cant run it on windows server. It was designed to specifically work with QEMU hypervisor thus we had to install that too, heavy task I tell you!

**Recommendations to others considering Sheepdog:**

Do use it if you are technically sound and patient enough to deal with installation at each and every node. Sheepdog is scalable, manageable, and reliable storage pool for IaaS environment. Do use it if you can build a cloud from scratch.

**What problems is Sheepdog solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It can solve the problem of hub failures which can occur in other distributed architectures. We don't have to care about where to store the objects. We are using it in cohesion with amazon EBS to store both cold and hot files for faster access.

  ### 2. a decent distributed data storage system

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018

**What do you like best about Sheepdog?**

In terms of performance its better than other similar tools which are available.

I loved the close integration it has with git. Its specially beneficial for startups, where they dont need to worry about storage and can focus on their code.

**What do you dislike about Sheepdog?**

None at particular, but it needs some tuning to avoid a huge performance lost during rebuild

**What problems is Sheepdog solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It provides shared storage with clusters which can be configured


## Sheepdog Discussions
  - [What is Sheepdog used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sheepdog-used-for)

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