Lightbits vs. Ceph: What NVMe over TCP Delivers -
- Linear performance-scaling without bottlenecks — Adding resources to Lightbits increases throughput proportionally; whereas Ceph hits an early ceiling whereby additional load converts entirely to higher latency.
- Seconds, not minutes, of I/O interruption during failures — Lightbits reroutes traffic automatically in seconds; Ceph disruptions measured in tens of seconds with visible throughput degradation can stack up to minutes lost.
- 90% fewer SSDs required — A global e-commerce leader replaced 960 Ceph NVMe drives with just 36 Lightbits drives while achieving higher transaction throughput
- 86% lower cost per transaction over five years — Fewer servers, less replication overhead, and simpler operations create a TCO trajectory that diverges sharply from Ceph over any planning horizon
- No gateway fleet to buy, scale, or maintain —Lightbits eliminates a separate gateway infrastructure with its own sizing, monitoring, patching, and failure domains
- Works on your favorite enterprise hardware - Pre-defined reference architectures by HPE, Lenovo, and Dell, with certified BOMs that remove deployment guesswork
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