How does IPFS compare with X?

[taliesinb]

Values of X might be Freenet, Tahoe-LAFS, BitTorrent Sync.

[jbenet]

great point. this will take a while to compile together.

[whyrusleeping]

Might be good to have separate issues for each comparison, and link to them from this issue

[MichaelMure]

Also, Camlistore.

[rhetr]

also maidsafe, ethereum, storj (for ipfs and filecoin) and maybe namecoin, dename (for ipns)

[Frando]

also gnunet / secushare

[harlantwood]

A feature matrix in table form would be really useful here.

[DeftNerd]

If you look into namecoin, also check out a similar coin called EmerCoin. Holds larger blocks and the developers have built some really neat features into it. It also has OpenDNS peering so people who use OpenDNS resolvers can access various new domain extensions

[akda5id]

I'd really like to see a discussion about the differences between this project and the CCN/NDN work, particularly the Named Data Networking concept of 'hierarchically structured names'. See http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/ for an overview, and parts 3 and 4 of this excellent talk by Van Jacobson for more details.

Structured names seem to have such incredible benefits to routing and caching, I would be intrested to hear an explanation as to why they are not used in this project.

[JesseWeinstein]

And git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/

And stronglink: https://github.com/btrask/stronglink

[heyakyra]

@akda5id i came here to post exactly that! curious about what the answer is

[gingerbeardman]

Interested to see this matrix

[orbisvicis]

Zeronet in clearnet mode and practical differences to Mobile IPv6.

[RichardLitt]

Related to: IPFS vs Dat.

[RichardLitt]

Might be good to have separate issues for each comparison, and link to them from this issue.

I agree with this. We should move this to separate issues. Right now, it's a place for people to drop stuff, but it's not being answered. Before making separate issues and linking them together, though, I want to call attention to our work at Discourse, where it would be good to add these questions, as well.

[jmithmstr]

I would like to know how IPFS or libp2p compares to https://matrix.org

[eaterjolly]

It's not really fair to compare open source projects which happen to be in direct competition with each other. The differences often reside in collective priorities and ideologies, and can be as fickle as two groups of programmer don't like the languages the others are using. Ethereum has a separate fork for 3 different purist language implementations of their engine, it's kinda a ridiculous level of redundant effort.
(albeit it's supposed to be a proof-of-concept that their network protocol is agnostic to code changes)

Ultimately their will be one or two gnunet/ipfs/etc forks to reign supreme, and, to borrow a term from the Wikipedia community, they would be pov fork. So long as the world's developers agree that there is one way to do an interplanetary filesystem, their will be one project, right now there is a lot of disagreement and people aren't even really sure what they are disagreeing about. (you'll notice that in open source and libre projects, just look at ethereum's swarm and how it compare's itself to ipfs.)

[madavieb]

This issue has been moved to https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/how-does-ipfs-compare-with-x/465.