There is a major difference in the scope of each project.

On one had there is MaidSafe - The team in Troon, Scotland;
They've worked on this thing since 2008

David Irvine describes MaidSafe - Google Tech Talks 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLA77zxk-vA

MaidSafe has raised 5 million usd equivalent in 2007;
David Irvine has made eBoxit -
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/05/prweb38433.htm

The storj project is led by Shawn WIlkinson:
https://github.com/super3
https://github.com/Storj
storj is being thought of as it goes along.
The project is quite small - it is in a high level language. And also lacks a lot of the organizational project that comes from 8 years of planing and developing.
Storj released a crowd sale based on the concept - and managed to raised 910 bitcoins:
http://storj.io/crowdsale.html



MaidSafe was released in a record crowd sale when the MaidSafe group released the patents to the software and made it GPL:
https://ihb.io/2014-04-24/news/record-6-million-worth-safecoin-crowd-sale-maidsafe-5-hours-5353
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/maidsafe-crowd-sale-begins-on-april-22-2014-04-21
MaidSafe has already been a substantial code base during it's release to the public.

MaidSafe GitHub:
https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe

MaidSafe is even hiring C++ programmers to expedite completion.
https://www.maidsafe.org/t/maidsafe-is-currently-hiring-c-software-engineers/2001

The Alpha 2 stage out of 3 has concluded and the TestNet 2 has been live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3pkijOa-E

That super Project has been successfully launched to commit:
Node creation
Self-Authentication
Self-Encrypting Data
Logging in
Storing Account Information
Storing Data
Retrieving Data

It is quite obvious after reviewing the above that MaidSafe is the real deal if it comes to decentralized cloud computational ecosystems.

There is such plenty of documentation I will illuminate each of you, but you must ask. There is quite much; though we can get through it.