I don't understand what is this about.
It is an open source alternative to Amazon S3. Just few months old project. Client utility 'mc' and language libraries are already usable.
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#12I'm new to the concept of object storage. Is the thing which distinguishes object storage from key-value storage the ability to also store metadata?
I.e., Instead of providing (key: value), it provides (key: (metadata, value))?
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#13Why not just use Swift? http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ It can be run as a stand alone app so it's generally pretty simple and can include support from https://swiftstack.com/ .
Free software and open source is all about choice. Gnome vs Ratpoison. GNU Emacs vs Vim .. :)
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are in an early stage, we will have a distributed version by end of this year. It isn't about "YAS3I". It isn't compatible just for the compatibility sake. Minio implementation is opinionated: "There is only one way to do it". Given a choice between Amazon S3 and OpenStack SwiftAPI compatibility, we picked Amazon S3. As SwiftAPI gains adoption, we may switch over to SwiftAPI, but will have to drop S3 then. Let the…
Tiny piece of advice, declaring a possible total revamp of the API as soon as you launch might not be the best way to attract early users.
Advice accepted. The choice is for the community to make, we will not make that choice unless community strongly wants us to do so.
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#15I don't understand what is this about.
Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious also, but there is next to nothing in terms of details (uses cases and such) on their site!
We don't have any yet, we are just few months old project. We will will have a distributed server by end of this year.
We have stand alone server now which includes currently three modes of operation
-- memory
-- filesystem
-- donut(experimental)
A small video to help you download and start a memory mode - https://asciinema.org/a/21575
Client tools and libraries are ready to be used by community to give us feedback on.
- https://github.com/minio/mc - Minio client collection of tools like `ls`, `cp`, `sync`, `cat`
- https://github.com/minio/minio-go - Golang
- https://github.com/minio/minio-js - Nodejs
- https://github.com/minio/minio-java - Java
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#16Why not just use Swift? http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ It can be run as a stand alone app so it's generally pretty simple and can include support from https://swiftstack.com/ .
First time I'm seeing Swift. Are there use cases where Swift is a better fit than Cassandra?
Swift is part of the larger family of OpenStack. Swift should provide (haven't verified this myself) better integration with all of the other OpenStack components (Keystone, Cinder, Neutron, etc.).
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#17I'm new to the concept of object storage. Is the thing which distinguishes object storage from key-value storage the ability to also store metadata? I.e., Instead of providing (key: value), it provides (key: (metadata, value))?
You can think of object storage as a type of key value storage optimized for storing unstructured data at scale. These include but are not limited to images, video, backups, and binary blobs.
You can contrast this to other key value stores such as memcache which is designed to cache data in memory or Cassandra which is designed for storing large quantities of small, structured data.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
First time I'm seeing Swift. Are there use cases where Swift is a better fit than Cassandra?
Swift is part of the larger family of OpenStack. Swift should provide (haven't verified this myself) better integration with all of the other OpenStack components (Keystone, Cinder, Neutron, etc.).
Swift can integrate with OpenStack, but you can very easily run it stand alone, and many do. It has erasure coding, geo replication, and its a fairly well baked product.
Here are good overviews:
* http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/
* https://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-...
And how Rackspace runs it at scale;
* https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-...
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#19What specifically separates this from Swift or Ceph, both of which have S3 compatible APIs and are considerably better documented/hardened/maintained + distributed?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious also, but there is next to nothing in terms of details (uses cases and such) on their site!
We don't have any yet, we are just few months old project. We will will have a distributed server by end of this year. We have stand alone server now which includes currently three modes of operation -- memory -- filesystem -- donut(experimental) A small video to help you download and start a memory mode - https://asciinema.org/a/21575 Client tools and libraries are ready to be used by community to give us feedback o…
What's "donut" storage?