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Tigris
Company blog · tigrisdata.com/blogsystemsstartups
Tigris is the company blog at tigrisdata.com, writing about systems and startups. Since 2022, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Tigris: Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link tigrisdata.com mostly as an S3-compatible object storage alternative, and cite its blog and docs on FoundationDB, object renaming, pricing and fake-CAPTCHA malware detection.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tigris is S3-compatible object storage for any cloud. Put your data in one place, run your compute anywhere, and pay nothing to move it out.
Most-linked posts?
- Tigris: Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2022-09-28
- /docs/pricing/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-13
- You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-15
- Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-12
- Show HN: Open-source MongoDB Atlas alternative public beta2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-21
- The Tigris Storage SDK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-25
- Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-15
- The TERN stack and how to migrate from MERN to TERN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-17
- /docs/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-02
- Fork Buckets Like You Fork Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-21
What Hacker News says?
I'm the developer of Protomaps, to summarize: The latency you see on https://pmtiles.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.source.coop%2Fpro... is representative of how PMTiles works on AWS S3, coming from the us-west-2 region. It will be reasonable to load for those in the western US and likely quite slow from Europe or Oceania. If you want to make a direct comparison of Protomaps to OpenFreeMap, you need to compare serving O…
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on “Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting”Submitted You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles as a story · 148 points
HN discussionSounds like you might be interested in the Tigris preview: - https://www.tigrisdata.com/ - https://benhoyt.com/writings/flyio-and-tigris/ (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360870 ) - https://fly.io/docs/reference/tigris/
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on “Fly.io has GPUs now”Submitted Object storage is all you need as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSupporting an existing API provides interoperability which is beneficial for the users. So that way if there is a better storage service it’s easier to adopt it. However, the S3 API compatibility can be a hindrance when you want to innovate and provide additional features and functionality. In our case, providing additional features [1] [2] while continuing to be S3 API compatible has forced us to rely on custom hea…
Comment linking /docs/objects/caching/
on “Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol”Submitted We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt's more of a "accessibility layer" on top of S3 or any other s3-compatible backend (which means that it also works with MinIO out-of-the-box [0]) I don't think we'll ever build the underlying storage layer. I'm a big fan of what the Tigris[1] team have built if you're looking for other good s3 alternatives [0] https://github.com/supabase/storage/blob/master/docker-compo... [1] Tigris: https://tigrisdata.com
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on “Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol”Submitted I taught a bucket to speak Git as a story · 20 points
HN discussionTigris Data [1] seems like a promising open-source solution [2] in this space. [1] https://www.tigrisdata.com/ [2] https://github.com/tigrisdata-archive/tigris
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on “Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?”Submitted Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads as a story · 16 points
HN discussionMentioned in this discussion https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/pricing/
Comment linking /docs/pricing/
on “Hetzner Object Storage”Submitted Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI should mention Tigris[0] here. They're also a new Object Storage service, but they have this two-way replication facility with another S3-compatible service. The primary purpose they built it for is to mirror files from your existing S3 to Tigris as files are requested. However they also have an option to copy files that are added to Tigris, to S3 automatically [1] (`--shadow-write-through`). I asked their founder…
Comment linking /docs/migration/
on “Hetzner Object Storage”Submitted You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPer Tigris Pricing[0]: > While other cloud providers tax you for each GB of data transferred, we don't. At Tigris, we don't charge for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress) in the majority of use cases. However, if your bandwidth requirements are extraordinary, please reach out to us at sales@tigrisdata.com to discuss your requirements. I wonder if a su…
Comment linking /docs/pricing/
on “Open Source Twitch for Developers”Submitted Tigris: Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSnowflake uses it: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-sn... Tigris uses it: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/building-a-database-using-fo... A good collection of papers, blog posts, talks, etc.: https://github.com/FoundationDB/awesome-foundationdb
Comment linking /blog/building-a-database-using-foundationdb/
on “Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB”Submitted Show HN: Open-source MongoDB Atlas alternative public beta as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhave you checked out Tigris Data? S3 compatible drop in replacement for S3, free tier to check it out. no vendor lock-in, no egress fees. https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/
Comment linking /docs/
on “MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans”Submitted Tigris transaction internals and how they compare to MongoDB as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDon't forget Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/
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on “Timescale Is Now TigerData”Submitted You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAh, S3 Express does look like the same thing! Looks like directory buckets S3 Express also allows appending to any object, while I believe GCS only allows you to append to a new object and then "finalize" it. I would also check out Tigris [1], which has an S3-compatible API. Their main claim to fame is that buckets are low-latency, multi-region and replicated by default, so supposedly you get region-local latency no…
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on “Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage”Submitted The Tigris Storage SDK as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTigris (an object storage provider, I have no affiliation) also uses FoundationDB for storing metadata: https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/concepts/architecture/#found...
Comment linking /docs/concepts/architecture/
on “Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API”Submitted Use MongoDB Shell to Connect to Tigris the OSS Alternative to MongoDB Atlas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYeah we do some similar tricks with our registry[0]: pushes and pulls from inside AWS are served directly from AWS for maximum performance and no data transfer cost. Then when the client is outside AWS, we redirect all that to Tigris[1], also for maximum performance (CDN) and minimum data transfer cost (no cost from Tigris, just the cost to move content out of AWS once). [0]: https://depot.dev/blog/introducing-depot…
Comment linking /blog/depot-registry/
on “Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions”Submitted Objgit is not a Git forge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is zero $$ to pay for egress to internet: https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/pricing/
Comment linking /docs/pricing/
on “Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io”Submitted tigrisfs: a global filesystem on your local machine as a story · 4 points
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