| 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. |
