openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_objectstorage-features.xml

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    <title>Features and benefits</title>

    <informaltable>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>Features</th>
          <th>Benefits</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Leverages commodity hardware</emphasis></td>
          <td>No lock-in, lower price/GB.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">HDD/node failure agnostic</emphasis></td>
          <td>Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects from
              failures.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Unlimited storage</emphasis></td>
          <td>Large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write
              access, able to serve content directly from storage system.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Multi-dimensional scalability</emphasis>
          </td>
          <td>Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and
              horizontally-distributed storage. Backs up and archives
              large amounts of data with linear performance.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Account/container/object structure</emphasis></td>
          <td>No nesting, not a traditional file system: Optimized
              for scale, it scales to multiple petabytes and billions of
              objects.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Built-in replication 3&#10005; +
              data redundancy (compared with 2&#10005; on RAID)</emphasis>
          </td>
          <td>A configurable number of accounts, containers and
              object copies for high availability.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Easily add capacity (unlike
              RAID resize)</emphasis></td>
           <td>Elastic data scaling with ease</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">No central database</emphasis></td>
          <td>Higher performance, no bottlenecks</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">RAID not required</emphasis></td>
          <td>Handle many small, random reads and writes efficiently</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Built-in management utilities</emphasis></td>
          <td>Account management: Create, add, verify, and delete
              users; Container management: Upload, download, and verify;
              Monitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and
              cluster health.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Drive auditing</emphasis></td>
          <td>Detect drive failures preempting data corruption</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Expiring objects</emphasis></td>
          <td>Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object
              to control access</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Direct object access</emphasis></td>
          <td>Enable direct browser access to content, such as for
              a control panel</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Realtime visibility into client
              requests</emphasis></td>
          <td>Know what users are requesting.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Supports S3 API</emphasis></td>
          <td>Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3
              API.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Restrict containers per
              account</emphasis></td>
          <td>Limit access to control usage by user.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Support for NetApp, Nexenta,
              SolidFire</emphasis></td>
          <td>Unified support for block volumes using a variety of
              storage systems.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Snapshot and backup API for
              block volumes</emphasis></td>
          <td>Data protection and recovery for VM data.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Standalone volume API
          available</emphasis></td>
          <td>Separate endpoint and API for integration with other
              compute systems.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><emphasis role="bold">Integration with
              Compute</emphasis></td>
          <td>Fully integrated with Compute for attaching block
          volumes and reporting on usage.</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </informaltable>
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