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Features and benefits
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* - 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.
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