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by angus-g 1254 days ago
What is the backend for the storage buckets we see in cloud (and increasingly, HPC) computing? Seems like a database filesystem would be a good fit there.
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I thought they were all some version of a Hadoop distributed file system.
MinIO has millions of installations according to the documentation. If this is the building block in your favorite cloud is mostly hidden and unknown to users.
Those can be classified under object storage.