| Leverages commodity hardware |
No lock-in, lower price/GB. |
| HDD/node failure agnostic |
Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects from
failures. |
| Unlimited storage |
Large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write
access, able to serve content directly from storage system. |
| Multi-dimensional scalability
|
Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and
horizontally-distributed storage. Backs up and archives
large amounts of data with linear performance. |
| Account/container/object structure |
No nesting, not a traditional file system: Optimized
for scale, it scales to multiple petabytes and billions of
objects. |
| Built-in replication 3✕ +
data redundancy (compared with 2✕ on RAID)
|
A configurable number of accounts, containers and
object copies for high availability. |
| Easily add capacity (unlike
RAID resize) |
Elastic data scaling with ease |
| No central database |
Higher performance, no bottlenecks |
| RAID not required |
Handle many small, random reads and writes efficiently |
| Built-in management utilities |
Account management: Create, add, verify, and delete
users; Container management: Upload, download, and verify;
Monitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and
cluster health. |
| Drive auditing |
Detect drive failures preempting data corruption |
| Expiring objects |
Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object
to control access |
| Direct object access |
Enable direct browser access to content, such as for
a control panel |
| Realtime visibility into client
requests |
Know what users are requesting. |
| Supports S3 API |
Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3
API. |
| Restrict containers per
account |
Limit access to control usage by user. |
| Support for NetApp, Nexenta,
SolidFire |
Unified support for block volumes using a variety of
storage systems. |
| Snapshot and backup API for
block volumes |
Data protection and recovery for VM data. |
| Standalone volume API
available |
Separate endpoint and API for integration with other
compute systems. |
| Integration with
Compute |
Fully integrated with Compute for attaching block
volumes and reporting on usage. |