IBM Cloud Object Storage vs Oracle Cloud Object Storage for Object Storage in 2025

IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Cloud Object Storage is an effective solution for managing large files, particularly for users already leveraging other IBM Cloud services. It offers several regions classified as multi-region, which are more cost-efficient compared to duplicating storage. This makes it an attractive choice for businesses needing to transfer large files across different geographic locations, providing cost savings without compromising data accessibility and integrity.

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Oracle Cloud Object Storage

OCI Object Storage is particularly suitable for use cases involving large file sizes within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem. It provides a scalable, secure, and durable solution for storing any type of data. It integrates seamlessly with other OCI services, supporting both traditional and cloud-native applications. The service is designed for data durability, automatically creating multiple copies of data across separate hardware.

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Feature	Dimensions	Description	IBM	Oracle
Cheap and Fast Retrieval from Archive	Pricing	Offers inexpensive hot access to data stored in an archive storage tier or equivalent.	Poor	Good
Decentralization	Use Case Fit Pricing Compliance	A lack of a centralized server by default has some security benefits. However, it is possible to meet a similar standard with a distributed architecture (and more work).	Poor	Poor
Life Cycle Management	Pricing	Lifecycle management allows you to set rules to manage your objects a certain way.	OK	OK
No Per Segment Fee	Pricing	Optimal for use cases where a high percentage of files are under ~64MB in size.	OK	OK
Reduced Migration Costs	Pricing	Vendor offers free or very low cost egress for the purpose of moving data off its service.	NA	Good
Requester Billing	Pricing Use Case Fit	The provider will directly charge accounts that make requests to your storage service.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Simple Pricing Structure	Pricing Use Case Fit	Has few (or even just one) tier of storage and a relatively simple fee structure for egress and operations.	Poor	Poor
AWS Backup	Integration	Support available for integrating with AWS Backup.	Poor	Poor
Acembly	Integration	Support available for integrating with Acembly.	OK	OK
Acronis	Integration	Support available for integrating with Acronis.	Good	Good
Actifio Go	Integration	Support available for integrating with Actifio Go.	OK	OK
Akamai CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Akamai CDN.	OK	OK
Amazon Athena	Integration	Support available for integrating with Amazon Athena.	Poor	Poor
Amazon CloudFront	Integration	Support available for integrating with Amazon CloudFront.	OK	OK
Amazon Redshift	Integration	Support available for integrating with Amazon RedShift.	Poor	Good
Apache Spark	Integration	Support available for integrating with Apache Spark.	OK	OK
Arq	Integration	Support available for integrating with Arq.	OK	OK
Azure Backup	Integration	Support available for integrating with Azure Backup.	Poor	Poor
Azure CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Azure CDN.	Good	Good
Azure Synapse Analytics	Integration	Support available for integrating with Azure Synapse Analytics.	Poor	UNKNOWN
Beluga CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Beluga CDN.	Poor	Poor
Bunny CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Bunny CDN.	OK	OK
Caringo	Integration	Support available for integrating with Caringo.	OK	OK
Cloudflare CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Cloudflare CDN.	Poor	OK
Clumio	Integration	Support available for integrating with Clumio.	Poor	Poor
Comet Backup	Integration	Support available for integrating with Comet Backup.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Commvault	Integration	Support available for integrating with Commvault.	OK	OK
Cyberduck	Integration	Support available for integrating with Cyberduck.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Duplicacy	Integration	Support available for integrating with Duplicacy.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Duplicati	Integration	Support available for integrating with Duplicati.	Poor	Poor
Fastly CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Fastly CDN.	OK	OK
Filezilla	Integration	Support available for integrating with Filezilla.	Poor	OK
Google BigQuery	Integration	Support available for integrating with Google BigQuery.	OK	OK
Google Cloud CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with Google Cloud CDN.	Poor	Poor
IBM Cloud CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with IBM Cloud CDN.	Great	Poor
IPFS	Integration	Support available for integrating with IPFS.	OK	Poor
Iconik	Integration	Support available for integrating with Iconik.	Poor	Poor
Komprise	Integration	Support available for integrating with Komprise.	Poor	Poor
Looker	Integration	Support available for integrating with Looker.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
MSP360	Integration	Support available for integrating with MSP360.	Poor	Poor
Metabase	Integration	Support available for integrating with Metabase.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
MinIO	Integration	Support available for integrating with MinIO.	Poor	OK
Mode Analytics	Integration	Support available for integrating with Mode Analytics.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
MongoDB	Integration	Allows you to stream Mongo collections to your storage service and available for retrieval in BSON format.	Poor	Poor
Object Function	Integration Use Case Fit	Allows you to add your own code to process data retrieved from the object storage provider before returning it to an application	Poor	Poor
PopSQL	Integration	Support available for integrating with PopSQL.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
QNAP	Integration	Support available for integrating with QNAP.	Poor	OK
Rclone	Integration	Support available for integrating with Rclone.	OK	Poor
Rubrik	Integration	Support available for integrating with Rubrik.	OK	OK
S3 Compatible API	Integration Compliance	It supports some of the standard capabilities that are native to Amazon S3.	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Snowflake	Integration	Support available for integrating with Snowflake.	NA	NA
StackPath CDN	Integration	Support available for integrating with StackPath CDN.	OK	OK
Synology	Integration	Support available for integrating with Synology.	Good	OK
Tableau	Integration	Support available for integrating with Tableau.	OK	Poor
Veeam	Integration	Support available for integrating with Veeam.	Good	Good
CCPA	Compliance	Privacy law for California residents allowing for "opt-out" from data collection.	OK	OK
Detailed Logging	Compliance	It keeps a log or trail of changes with sufficient detail for troubleshooting purposes.	Good	OK
End-to-end Encryption	Compliance	It prevents data from being read or modified by any unintended parties.	Good	Good
Extra Redundancy Tiering	Compliance	Extra redundancy tiers provide an SLA of usually between 11 and 16 9s of durability.	OK	OK
FedRAMP	Compliance	Ensures that the government security requirements outlined in NIST 800-53 are met and supplemented by the PMO of FedRAMP.	OK	OK
GDPR	Compliance	Regulation on data protection and privacy of the data tied to citizens and residents of EU countries.	OK	OK
HIPAA	Compliance	Demonstrates that security and privacy requirements are met for the storing and processing of protected health information (PHI and e-PHI).	Great	Great
HITRUST	Compliance	Demonstrates security and compliance with standards of the healthcare industry.	Great	Great
ISO 27001	Compliance	Standard for information security management systems.	Great	Great
ISO 27017	Compliance	Standard for information security management systems.	Great	Great
ISO 27018	Compliance	Standard for information security management systems.	Great	Great
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Use Case Fit Compliance	IAM is a standard for securely controlling access to resources on the cloud.	Good	Good
Object Lock	Compliance	It allows you to set a lock on the version of your object for a defined period.	Great	Good
PCI DSS	Compliance	Standard that ensures consistent practices are met for data security in the payments card industry.	Great	Great
Ransomware Resistance	Compliance	It provides an air-gapped solution to insulate from attacks.	Poor	Poor
SOC 1 Type 2	Compliance	Standard that ensures a panoramic and confidential view of processes is available.	Great	Great
SOC 2 Type 2	Compliance	Standard promoted by the American Institute of CPAs that ensures the integrity and privacy of customer data.	Great	Great
<1 hr Retrieval from Deep Archive	Performance	How fast you can retrieve your data from the (Deepest) Archival storage class, using this provider? A good rating means you can retrieve your data in less than an hour, while an ok rating provider usually takes up to an hour and a provider with a bad rating on this feature will usually take up to 12 hours to retrieve data from its (Deepest) Archival storage class.	Poor	Good
<1 min Retrieval from Archive	Performance	How fast you can retrieve your data from an Archival storage class, using this provider? A good rating means you can retrieve your data in less than a minute, while an ok rating provider usually takes a few minutes and a provider with a bad rating on this feature will usually take up to one hour to retrieve data from its Archival storage class.	OK	Poor
Fast Download Speeds	Performance	Generally has fast download/read speeds for files stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Fast Download Speeds for Large Files	Performance	Has fast download/read speeds for files greater than ~1GB stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Fast Download Speeds for Small Files	Performance	Has fast download/write speeds for files lesser than ~1MB stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Fast Upload Speeds	Performance	Generally has fast upload/write speeds for files stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Fast Upload Speeds for Large Files	Performance	Has fast upload/write speeds for files greater than ~1GB stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Fast Upload Speeds for Small Files	Performance	Has fast upload/write speeds for files less than ~1MB stored in the standard storage tier or equivalent.	OK	Good
Multipart Upload	Performance	Multipart upload allows you to upload a single object or file as a set of parts. When done in parallel, this can improve throughput by a lot.	OK	OK
Strong Consistency	Use Case Fit Performance	Strong consistency keeps your objects consistent across your applications without requiring custom code.	OK	OK
Advanced Storage Insights	Use Case Fit	Detailed metrics (e.g., errors, requests, bytes uploaded/downloaded) and dashboards available at the account, region, bucket, or even prefix level.	OK	OK
Cost and Usage Reports	Use Case Fit	A thorough breakdown of costs in billing reports is available.	Good	Good
Eventing	Use Case Fit	It gives you the ability to trigger a Lambda or Function off of an event from your storage service	OK	OK
Large Maximum Object Size	Use Case Fit	Most providers will let you store individual files (not broken up) up to 5 TB in size, but some may allow you to store larger files (up to 10 TB).	Good	Great
MBCS Compatibility	Use Case Fit	Filenames can use the MBCS character set.	Poor	Poor
Multi-region Redundancy Setting	Use Case Fit	Easy mechanisms in place to replicate data across multiple regions.	OK	OK
Multi-zone Regions	Use Case Fit	Some of the available regions have multiple availability zones (AZs) to replicate data within.	OK	OK
No Egress Limits	Use Case Fit	It allows you to egress or download as much data as you want even though you might have to pay for it.	OK	OK
No Minimum Object Size	Use Case Fit	It allows you to store tiny objects (practically no floor).	OK	OK
No Minimum Storage Retention Period	Use Case Fit	Indicates if the provider has a a minimum storage duration policy that can generate additional charges (early deletion) considering every storage class available on its service, i.e. if at least one of its storage classes doesn't have a minimum storage duration, then the provider should have a good rating on this feature.	OK	OK
Object Tagging	Use Case Fit	Tags are used to easily sort and categorize objects.	OK	OK
Object Versioning	Use Case Fit	Versioning will allow you to retain the old object when it is updated or deleted.	OK	OK
Parquet Compatibility	Use Case Fit	Rather than using row-based data like what you would typically find in a CSV or JSON, Parquet is an open-source framework for efficient flat columnar data formats.	OK	OK
Transfer Appliance	Use Case Fit	Vendor offers an appliance usually 10s to 100s of TBs in size to cheaply transfer data to their service "physically" from another provider.	OK	OK

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