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Transparent Data Compression on MinIO
Enabling and tuning transparent data compression in MinIO.
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Erasure Coding 101
Learn how Reed-Solomon erasure coding provides data protection for distributed object storage at scale.
Read more...Object Storage is Primary Storage
Stellar performance-at-scale, flexibility and consistency make object storage the best choice for cloud-native enterprises.
Read more...MinIO Versioning, Metadata and Storage Deep Dive
Dig into MinIO internals and learn how this distributed object storage solution is optimized to handle thousands of versions of a single object.
Read more...How Server Pools Streamline Storage Operations
MinIO takes particular pride in the concept of manageability. This is born out of our relentless focus on simplicity. Our belief is that a single individual with moderate technical capability should be able to manage a multi-petabyte instance of MinIO in their free time.
Read more...Multi-Site Active-Active Replication
Synchronizing data between multiple data centers is a core competency of any object storage service. MinIO already checked this box with its performance optimized Server-Side Active-Active Bucket Replication. Initially, MinIO only recommended two MinIO deployments. Active-Active replication supports scenarios such as: Same-DC ReplicationCross-DC ReplicationSame-Region ReplicationCross-Region ReplicationActive-Active replication is a key tool for organizations looking for multi-primary topologies, fast hot-hot failover,
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...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...Enterprise-Grade Cloud Storage with NGINX Plus and MinIO
In this post, I explain how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy and load balancer for MinIO servers.
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