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Features and benefits
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.. list-table::
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:header-rows: 1
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:widths: 10 40
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* - Features
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- Benefits
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* - Leverages commodity hardware
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- No lock-in, lower price/GB.
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* - HDD/node failure agnostic
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- Self-healing, reliable, data redundancy protects from failures.
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* - Unlimited storage
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- Large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write access,
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able to serve content directly from storage system.
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* - Multi-dimensional scalability
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- Scale-out architecture: Scale vertically and
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horizontally-distributed storage. Backs up and archives large
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amounts of data with linear performance.
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* - Account/container/object structure
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- No nesting, not a traditional file system: Optimized for scale,
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it scales to multiple petabytes and billions of objects.
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* - Built-in replication 3✕ + data redundancy (compared with 2✕ on
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RAID)
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- A configurable number of accounts, containers and object copies
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for high availability.
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* - Easily add capacity (unlike RAID resize)
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- Elastic data scaling with ease.
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* - No central database
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- Higher performance, no bottlenecks.
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* - RAID not required
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- Handle many small, random reads and writes efficiently.
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* - Built-in management utilities
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- Account management: Create, add, verify, and delete users;
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Container management: Upload, download, and verify; Monitoring:
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Capacity, host, network, log trawling, and cluster health.
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* - Drive auditing
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- Detect drive failures preempting data corruption.
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* - Expiring objects
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- Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object to
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control access.
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* - Direct object access
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- Enable direct browser access to content, such as for a control
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panel.
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* - Realtime visibility into client requests
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- Know what users are requesting.
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* - Supports S3 API
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- Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3 API.
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* - Restrict containers per account
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- Limit access to control usage by user.
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