Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 Performance Testing

Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 Performance Testing

We recently benchmarked MinIO S3 performance on the Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 using the WARP benchmark tool. Western Digital’s OpenFlex Data24 [https://www.westerndigital.com/products/data-center-platforms/openflex-data24-nvme-of-platform] NVMe-oF Storage Platform extends the high performance of NVMe flash to shared storage. It provides low-latency sharing of NVMe SSDs over a high-performance Ethernet fabric to deliver similar performance to locally

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Impact of Intel vs. ARM CPU Performance for Object Storage

Impact of Intel vs. ARM CPU Performance for Object Storage

The recent announcement from AWS about the general availability of their new ARM-powered Graviton2 servers caused us to take another look at the performance of these ARM servers. In this blog post we describe the results which you may find surprising. Introduction MinIO [https://github.com/minio/minio] is an Apache licensed, open source S3-compatible object storage server with a

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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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Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

The demise of Hadoop is probably overblown. It will not suddenly disappear from the enterprise landscape - there are simply too many clients, too much sunk investment for it to vanish into the night. What is not overblown is the fact that Hadoop, like countless technologies before it, is in secular, irreversible decline. There are a number of reasons but

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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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