===================== Features and benefits ===================== .. list-table:: :header-rows: 1 :widths: 10 40 * - 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.