| Features |
Benefits |
| 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 |