[Gluster-users] Scalability - File system or Object Store

[Jay Vyas]

in object stores you sacrifice the consistency gauranteed by filesystems
for **higher** availability.     probably by "scale" you mean higher
availability, so...  the answer is probably object storage.

That said, gluster is an interesting file system in that it is
"object-like" --- it is really fast for lookups.... and so if you aren't
really sure you need objects, you might be able to do just fine with
gluster out of the box.

One really cool idea that is permeating the gluster community nowadays is
this "UFO" concept, -- you can easily start with regular gluster, and then
layer an object store on top at a later date if you want to  sacrifice
posix operations for (even) higher availability.

"Unified File and Object Storage - Unified file and object storage allows
admins to utilize the same data store for both POSIX-style mounts as well
as S3 or Swift-compatible APIs."   (from
http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/3.3beta)


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Randy Breunling <rbreunling at gmail.com>wrote:

> From any experience...which has shown to scale better...a file system or
> an object store?
>
> --Randy
> San Jose CA
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Jay Vyas
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