MinLZ is a compression algorithm developed by MinIO. The main goal is to provide a format that offers the best-in-class compression while providing very fast decompression even with modest hardware.
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A MinIO cluster operates as a uniform cluster. This means that any request must be seamlessly handled by any server. As a consequence, servers need to coordinate between themselves. This has so far been handled with traditional HTTP RPC requests - and this has served us well. Whenever server A would like to call server B an HTTP request would
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A lot of vendors offer compression and deduplication as a feature of their storage solutions. We critically evaluate these claims by looking at the two methods used to reduce the raw disk usage. Data Compression Compression in overall terms, gets its benefit from reducing redundancy in the data you upload. This means that repeated or otherwise predictable data can be
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The answer to the burning question you always wanted to ask - how does erasure coding utilize CPU?
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Enabling and tuning transparent data compression in MinIO.
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Working with a data lake of ZIP files? Learn how to download individual files from ZIP archives saved on MinIO.
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Dig into MinIO internals and learn how this distributed object storage solution is optimized to handle thousands of versions of a single object.
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