liteio
A fast, fully open, S3-compatible object store written in Go.
MinIO's community edition went into maintenance mode in December 2025 and moved its management features behind a commercial product. liteio is the answer to that: an S3-compatible object store that ships every feature for free under Apache-2.0, runs as one static binary, and is engineered to saturate the hardware you paid for.
It speaks the AWS S3 API that your SDKs, aws CLI, mc, and rclone already
know. Point a client at it and it behaves like S3. Underneath, an object's
location is computed from its name, so there is no metadata database to run,
replicate, or lose.
A few numbers from a 6-vCPU VPS with 10,000 objects in a bucket:
| Operation | liteio | Garage (same box) |
|---|---|---|
| List 1,000 objects (p50) | 32 ms | 195 ms |
| GET small object (p50) | 19 ms | |
| PUT small object (p50) | 149 ms |
New here? The quick start gets you a live S3 endpoint in two minutes with nothing but a Go toolchain. Coming from MinIO? The migration guide is usually a one-line endpoint change. Want the honest list of what works today? Read the compatibility matrix.