Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
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Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
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#2SeaweedFS is great as well.
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#3I don’t understand why everyone wants to replicate AWS APIs for things that are not AWS.
S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features. It’s just file storage without any of the benefits of a file syste - no metadata, no directory structures, no ability to search, sort, or filter.
Combine that with high latency network file access and an overly verbose API. You literally have a bucket for storing files, when you used to have a toolbox with drawers, folders, and labels.
Replicating a real file system is not that hard, and when you lose the original reason for using a bucket —- because your were stuck in the swamp with nothing else to carry your files in — why keep using it when you’re out of the mud?
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#4I don’t understand why everyone wants to replicate AWS APIs for things that are not AWS. S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features. It’s just file storage without any of the benefits of a file syste - no metadata, no directory structures, no ability to search, sort, or filter. Combine that with high latency network file access and an overly verbose API. You literally have a bucket for storing files,…
Because at this point it's a well known API. I bet people want to recreate AWS without the Amazon part, and so this is for them.
Which, to your point, makes no sense because as you rightly point out, people use S3 because of the Amazon services and ecosystem it is integrated with - not at all because it is "good tech"
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#5I have used Garage for a long time. It's great, but the AWS sigv4 protocol for accessing it is just frustrating. Why can't I just send my API key as a header? I don't need the full AWS SDK to get and put files, and the AWS sigv4 is a ton of extra complexity to add to my projects. I don't care about the "security benefits" of AWS sigv4. I hope the authors consider a different authentication scheme so I can recommend Garage more readily.
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#6I have used Garage for a long time. It's great, but the AWS sigv4 protocol for accessing it is just frustrating. Why can't I just send my API key as a header? I don't need the full AWS SDK to get and put files, and the AWS sigv4 is a ton of extra complexity to add to my projects. I don't care about the "security benefits" of AWS sigv4. I hope the authors consider a different authentication scheme so I can recommend G…
Implementing v4 on the server side also requires the service to keep the token as plain text. If it's a persistent password, rather than an ephemeral key, that opens up another whole host of security issues around password storage. And on the flip side requiring the client to hit an endpoint to receive a session based token is even more crippling from a performance perspective.
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#7Is this open source ?
Re: Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
#8I have used Garage for a long time. It's great, but the AWS sigv4 protocol for accessing it is just frustrating. Why can't I just send my API key as a header? I don't need the full AWS SDK to get and put files, and the AWS sigv4 is a ton of extra complexity to add to my projects. I don't care about the "security benefits" of AWS sigv4. I hope the authors consider a different authentication scheme so I can recommend G…
Sending your api key in the header is equivalent to basic auth.
Re: Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
#9I don’t understand why everyone wants to replicate AWS APIs for things that are not AWS. S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features. It’s just file storage without any of the benefits of a file syste - no metadata, no directory structures, no ability to search, sort, or filter. Combine that with high latency network file access and an overly verbose API. You literally have a bucket for storing files,…
> Replicating a real file system is not that hard
Ummmm what? Replicating a file system is insanely hard
Re: Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
#10I don’t understand why everyone wants to replicate AWS APIs for things that are not AWS. S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features. It’s just file storage without any of the benefits of a file syste - no metadata, no directory structures, no ability to search, sort, or filter. Combine that with high latency network file access and an overly verbose API. You literally have a bucket for storing files,…
> S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features.
Because turn out that most applications do not require that many features when it comes to persistent storage.