Databases on Object Storage - the New Normal

Databases on Object Storage - the New Normal

When you think about object storage workloads and storage types - databases are increasingly a core workload. The changes are driven by two forces: the availability of high performance object storage and the explosive growth of data and specifically its associated metadata. Because of these two forces, almost every major database vendor now includes S3 compatible endpoints. Further, for many

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Replication Strategies Deep Dive

Replication Strategies Deep Dive

With all these different types of replication types floating around one has to wonder which replication strategy to use where? Today we’ll demystify these different replication strategies to see which one should be used in which scenario.

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Scaling up MinIO Internal Connectivity

Scaling up MinIO Internal Connectivity

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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