[didgetmaster]

I created a kind of object store (https://www.Didgets.com) that originally was designed to replace file systems. It manages the data streams (i.e. blobs) for each object very much like a file system does for each file. Although I have a few algorithms that make allocation and management of all the blocks very efficient, my testing shows almost equivalent I/O speed for reading/writing the data.

It is in the metadata management where my system excels. The table of file records for volume with over 200M files only needs 13GB read from disk and that much RAM to cache it all. Contextual metadata tags can be attached to each object and lightning fast queries executed that use them. The objects (Didgets) can be arranged in a hierarchical folder tree just like file systems use, but they don't need to be.