Storage
Distributed storage systems for Kubernetes and cloud environments — covering unified software-defined storage, cloud-native block storage, and high-performance S3-compatible object storage.
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Topics
| System |
Description |
| Ceph |
Unified software-defined storage providing block (RBD), object (RGW), and file (CephFS) at exabyte scale via RADOS and the CRUSH algorithm. |
| Longhorn |
Cloud-native distributed block storage for Kubernetes — CNCF Incubating, lightweight, with iSCSI-based engine and native snapshot/backup support. |
| MinIO |
High-performance S3-compatible object storage with erasure coding, site replication, and IAM/STS — now primarily the commercial AIStor platform. |
Comparisons
| Comparison |
Scope |
| Storage Comparison |
Ceph vs Longhorn vs MinIO — use cases, architecture, performance, and operational complexity |