Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent, Intel and MinIO conducted benchmarking and certification testing for MinIO Tiered Object Storage for Kafka storage. This blog post describes the observations and results of testing MinIO object storage as a backend for the tiered storage feature of Confluent Platform 7.1.0 on servers equipped with third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The scope of these tests was

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MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO provides a flexible Identity and Access Management system that can be integrated with popular external identity providers. MinIO IAM is built with AWS IAM compatibility at its core - access is controlled by policies mirroring AWS' IAM policies. While AWS supports myriad ways to control access, including ACLs, Bucket Policies, etc, in the interest of simplicity, MinIO'

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Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Enterprises rely on data to make decisions. Effective decision-making hinges on the accuracy, timeliness, availability, and security of data. Data consistency, an important factor that cannot be ignored when purchasing storage, involves ensuring that all relevant parties can immediately access the results of a database transaction once it has been finalized, either through commitment or rollback. This guarantees that everyone

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Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Some of the smartest minds in philanthropy are backing the concept of a simple yet powerful national ID system. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tata Trusts, the Omidyar Network and the Pratiksha Trust have all gotten involved with this movement because of its foundational capabilities for enabling a wide range of social programmes. They have put their resources

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Percona Streaming Backup

Percona Streaming Backup

What is streaming mode? Essentially it allows you to backup with Percona xtraBackup without touching disk. When used alongside MinIO Jumbo, it is designed to upload and retrieve large objects from the MinIO cluster.

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Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Enterprise customers use MinIO to build data lakehouses to store a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, and work with it using ML and analytics. Data flows into MinIO from across the enterprise and the S3 API allows applications, such as analytics and AI/ML to work with it.   I previously blogged about building data pipelines with SAP Data

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Myths about Deduplication and Compression

Myths about Deduplication and Compression

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. Compression Overview 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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OpenSearchCon 2023 Talk

OpenSearchCon 2023 Talk

Apparently, the OpenSearch folks love MinIO as much as we love OpenSearch, the talk got accepted and we were invited to present it in Seattle. It was very cold in the Northwest but we were very excited nonetheless.

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