Kubernetes CSI and COSI: a Symbiotic Relationship

Kubernetes CSI and COSI: a Symbiotic Relationship

The push to standardize Object Storage in Kubernetes has gained significant momentum in the recent months. The new standard, named COSI for Container Object Storage Interface, strikes a similar chord to CSI  —  a well known standard for consuming storage in Kubernetes. In this article, I’ll dive into COSI, its architecture, and how it fits alongside CSI. Finally, I’ll

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Scaling MinIO: Benchmarking Performance From Terabytes to Petabytes

Scaling MinIO: Benchmarking Performance From Terabytes to Petabytes

MinIO provides the best-in-class performance as we have repeatedly shown in our previous benchmarks [https://min.io/resources/#benchmarks]. In those benchmarks, we chose the highest-end hardware and measured if MinIO could squeeze out every bit of the resources afforded it. This proved two key points: 1. Ensuring that MinIO utilizes the maximum possible CPU, Network, and Storage available. 2.

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Performance at Scale: MinIO Pushes Past 1.4 terabits per second with 256 NVMe Drives

The fact that MinIO is fast is not a secret. We routinely publish our benchmarks and have put out comparision work against HDFS [https://blog.min.io/hdfsbenchmark/] and AWS (Spark [https://blog.min.io/benchmarking-apache-spark-vs-aws-s3/] + Presto [https://blog.min.io/running-presto-on-minio-benchmarking-vs-aws-s3/]) in addition to our HDD [https://blog.min.io/s3-benchmark-using-hdd/] and NVMe [https://blog.min.io/s3-benchmark-minio-on-nvme/] numbers.

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Benchmarking MinIO vs. AWS S3 for Apache Spark

Benchmarking MinIO vs. AWS S3 for Apache Spark

Apache Spark is a framework for distributed computing. It provides one of the best mechanisms for distributing data across multiple machines in a cluster and performing computations on it. Spark achieves this by constructing data structures called RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets). RDDs allow data to be broken into disparate chunks and processed independently of one another. The individual chunks can

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S3 Benchmark: MinIO on NVMe

S3 Benchmark: MinIO on NVMe

Well written software is fast software. When MinIO was conceived it was designed from scratch to be simple, to scale (because simple things scale better) and to be fast. Simplicity and scale have their own subjective and objective measures - but fast is generally a numbers game. When you take well-written, fast software and pair it with fast hardware the

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S3 Benchmark: MinIO on HDDs

S3 Benchmark: MinIO on HDDs

High performance object storage is one of the hotter topics in the enterprise today. On the one hand, object storage has become an indispensable part of the enterprise storage strategy (public or private cloud) - carrying the vast, vast majority of the enterprise burden when measured in TBs or PBs. On the other hand, object storage has traditionally served a

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