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Introducing Speedtest for MinIO
One-click automated performance testing for MinIO clusters.
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Supermicro Cloud DC Benchmark
WARP performance testing MinIO on Supermicro Cloud DC servers with NVMe drives.
Read more...Object Storage Erasure Coding vs. Block Storage RAID
Protecting blocks is not the same as protecting objects. Learn where block-level RAID falls short compared to erasure coding in distributed object storage.
Read more...Databases on Object Storage - the New Normal
When you think about object storage workloads and storage types - databases are not the first thing that comes to mind. That is changing rapidly, however, driven by just two forces: the availability of true, high performance object storage and explosive growth of data and, perhaps more impactfully, its associated metadata. Because of these two forces, almost every major database
Read more...No More Rebalancing Object Storage!
MinIO server pools enable rapid expansion without the downtime and risk of rebalancing.
Read more...MinIO Optimizes Small Object Storage and Adds .tar Auto-Extraction
Cloud-native workloads push storage to the limit with many small files. MinIO combines metadata and data to optimize small file operations.
Read more...The Trouble With Cassandra: Why It's a Poor Choice For a Metadata Database for Object Stores
Cassandra is a popular, tried-and-true NoSQL database that supports key-value wide-column tables. Like any powerful tool, Cassandra has its ideal use cases - in particular, Cassandra excels at supporting write-heavy workloads, while having limitations when supporting read-heavy workloads. Cassandra's eventual consistency model and lack of transactions, multi-table support like joins, subqueries can also limit its usefulness. However, using Cassandra as
Read more...Why Small Objects Are Such a Big Deal
Over the last decade or so, object storage use cases have evolved considerably as they replace traditional file and block use cases. Specifically the need to work with small data objects is becoming commonplace. Yes, there’s still plenty of large objects but small objects are becoming more prevalent than large for specific workloads and application environments. Traditional object storage
Read more...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 is an Apache licensed, open source S3-compatible object storage server with a particular focus on high performance.
Read more...Accelerating aggregate MD5 hashing up to 800% with AVX512
IntroductionWhile MD5 hashing is no longer a good choice when considering a hash function, it is still being used in a great variety of applications. As such any performance improvements that can be made to the MD5 hashing speed are worth considering. Due to recent improvements in SIMD processing (AVX2 and especially AVX512) we are providing a Go md5-simd package
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