What OpenEBS does

OpenEBS is an open-source, Kubernetes-native storage platform that turns any storage available to Kubernetes worker nodes into Local or Replicated Persistent Volumes. The product is implemented entirely in user space and orchestrated by Kubernetes itself, following the Container Native Storage (CNS) pattern in which storage controllers run as containers and volumes are represented as Kubernetes Custom Resources. The platform comprises multiple data engines: Replicated PV Mayastor (a synchronous NVMe-TCP replicated block store with per-volume replication and cross-AZ failover), Local PV Hostpath (sub-directory volumes with monitoring, backup/restore, and disaster-recovery tooling), Local PV LVM, Local PV ZFS, and Local PV Rawfile (experimental, sparse-file based). Replicated Volumes deliver enterprise-grade data services — snapshots, clones, volume expansion, cross-availability-zone replication — while Local Volumes deliver low-latency direct-mounted storage suited to distributed workloads such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch. Primary features include synchronous replication across Kubernetes zones (on GKE, EKS, AKS, and on-prem), copy-on-write snapshots with incremental cross-cluster migration capability, Prometheus and Grafana observability, Velero-based backup/restore to S3/GCS/MinIO, and reported storage TCO reductions of 50-60% via thin provisioning and dynamic volume management. Benchmarking on Intel P5800X Optane showed I/O path overhead in the 6-10% range.

The business model is a freemium, community-led open-source motion: the core software is published under Apache 2.0 and distributed globally via Helm charts, kubectl commands, and GitHub releases, with no charge for the software itself. Commercial support, professional services, and implementation assistance are monetized through MayaData, Inc., the San Jose, California-based operating company that originally built OpenEBS and continues to steward development. Go-to-market is developer-led: Kubernetes Slack (#openebs channel), GitHub collaboration, comprehensive documentation at openebs.io/docs, and CNCF ecosystem visibility after the project was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a sandbox project. Customer use cases span distributed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), in-memory stores (Redis), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch), CI/CD tooling (GitLab), object storage (MinIO), search/analytics (Elasticsearch), CI/CD (Jira, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Gerrit), and scalable web/ML workloads requiring ReadWriteMany access. The user base is horizontal — global, cross-industry, and predominantly enterprise Kubernetes platform teams — and the firmographics indicate a small (1-10 employee) operating entity with no disclosed revenue, no disclosed institutional funding of significance, and a headquarter footprint split between the MayaData entity in San Jose, CA and a listed Fort Lauderdale presence.

Name

OpenEBS

Legal name

MayaData, Inc.

Website

https://openebs.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OpenEBS is an open-source, Kubernetes-native storage platform that turns any storage on K8s worker nodes into Local or Replicated Persistent Volumes, serving enterprise platform teams running stateful workloads like databases, observability stacks, and CI/CD on any Kubernetes distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Kubernetes Persistent Storage

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Kubernetes & Container Platform Management (Private Cloud) (HDABABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Container Platforms & Orchestration (Kubernetes) (HDABADAF), Storage Virtualization & Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (HDABAEAF), Cloud-Native Application Development (Containers/Kubernetes/Serverless) (BPAEAFAE)

Keywords

• Container native storage
• Kubernetes persistent volumes
• Cloud native storage
• Block storage replication
• Open source storage

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Open Source Software (Free): OpenEBS is completely open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license. The core product is freely available via GitHub and Helm charts.
2. Commercial Support: Commercial support services available for enterprises requiring production support, implementation assistance, and professional services for OpenEBS deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OpenEBS is an open-source container-native storage platform that runs as a set of microservices on Kubernetes to provide persistent block storage for stateful workloads. It delivers persistent volumes through multiple Kubernetes-aware storage engines — Mayastor, Local PV Hostpath, Local PV LVM, Local PV ZFS, and Local PV Rawfile — enabling both local and replicated storage for databases, message queues, and other Kubernetes stateful applications. The software is donated to and governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox project and is supported by a community of contributors.

Product overview

OpenEBS is an open-source, cloud-native storage platform for Kubernetes that provides Container Native Storage (CNS). It offers a suite of storage engines that turn any storage available to Kubernetes worker nodes into Local or Replicated Persistent Volumes. The product portfolio includes Replicated PV Mayastor for distributed block storage with synchronous replication, Local PV Hostpath for directory-based volumes, Local PV LVM for LVM-backed volumes, Local PV ZFS for ZFS-backed volumes, and Local PV Rawfile (experimental) for sparse file volumes. OpenEBS was originally built by MayaData and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Replicated PV Mayastor A replicated block storage engine that delivers persistent volumes for Kubernetes workloads needing synchronous cross-node/cross-availability-zone replication, used by platform and application teams running stateful production databases.
• Local PV Hostpath A local persistent volume engine for Kubernetes that uses the node's host-path filesystem to back persistent volumes, suited for single-node workloads, scratch data, and applications where local performance is preferred over replication.
• Local PV LVM A local persistent volume engine for Kubernetes that uses Linux LVM to provide logical volume management on a node, targeting performance-sensitive workloads that require thin/thick provisioning and snapshot support locally.
• Local PV ZFS A local persistent volume engine for Kubernetes that uses ZFS on the underlying node to deliver data integrity, snapshots, and compression for databases and other stateful applications.
• Local PV Rawfile A local persistent volume engine for Kubernetes that provisions persistent volumes from raw block devices or files on a node, suited for high-I/O databases and workloads that need direct block-device performance.
• OpenEBS CLI (isctl) A command-line tool (isctl) that enables platform operators to install and operate OpenEBS in non-Kubernetes or bare-metal environments, useful for testing and evaluation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Users report reduced storage TCO up to 50% due to thin provisioning and dynamic volume management
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpenEBS was originally built by MayaData and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It is now a CNCF sandbox project, benefiting from foundation governance, ecosystem visibility, and collaboration with other CNCF projects.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Longhorn: Longhorn is Rancher/SUSE's cloud-native distributed block storage for Kubernetes. It directly competes with OpenEBS Mayastor for replicated persistent volumes serving stateful workloads, with similar lightweight, cloud-native architecture and 100% open-source positioning.
• Portworx: Portworx (acquired by Pure Storage) is an enterprise-grade container storage platform for Kubernetes that offers replication, snapshots, and data services. It competes head-on with OpenEBS for production-grade stateful workloads, but with a vendor-backed commercial offering.
• StorageOS: StorageOS is a Kubernetes-native, software-defined block storage product providing replicated persistent volumes with snapshots and clones. It competes directly with OpenEBS in the replicated-PV market for stateful containerized applications.
• Rook: Rook is a CNCF-graduated open-source orchestrator for storage systems (Ceph, NFS, etc.) running on Kubernetes. Like OpenEBS, it delivers Kubernetes-native persistent storage via Kubernetes operators, and competes for the same stateful-workload use cases across on-prem and cloud.
• LINSTOR: LINSTOR (by LINBIT) is a software-defined storage manager for Linux that integrates with Kubernetes via a CSI driver to provide replicated block storage. It is comparable to OpenEBS in providing replicated persistent volumes on Kubernetes with open-source licensing.

Others

• Velero (VMware by Broadcom): Velero is a CNCF-incubating backup/restore tool for Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes, with first-party OpenEBS plugins. It is an ecosystem partner rather than a direct competitor, providing complementary data-protection capability that increases OpenEBS's enterprise value.

Broad incumbents

• Dell CSI drivers (PowerStore/PowerFlex): Dell's CSI drivers connect PowerStore, PowerFlex, and other enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes clusters. They overlap with OpenEBS at the persistent-volume layer but are part of a much broader hardware-and-software stack.
• NetApp Trident: NetApp Trident is a CSI-compliant dynamic storage orchestrator that provisions persistent volumes from NetApp enterprise arrays onto Kubernetes. It competes with OpenEBS for Kubernetes storage workloads but as part of NetApp's broader enterprise storage portfolio rather than as a Kubernetes-native specialist.
• Pure Storage CSI driver: Pure Storage provides a Kubernetes CSI driver that provisions persistent volumes from Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade systems. It is comparable to OpenEBS for enterprises standardizing on Pure arrays for Kubernetes workloads, while OpenEBS serves the hardware-agnostic use case.

Emerging players

• MinIO: MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object storage system that often co-deploys with OpenEBS for storage backends. While OpenEBS provides block storage and MinIO provides S3-compatible object storage, they are tightly integrated and frequently adopted together.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/openebs?s=20
• GitHubgithub.com/openebs/openebs
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC3ywadaAUQ1FI4YsHZ8wa0g
• Facebookfacebook.com/openebs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/openebs

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Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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