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Object storage

Object storage (also known as object-based storage or blob storage) is a computer data storage approach that manages data as "blobs" or "objects", as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Each object is typically…

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Object storage

Nodes81
Edges80
Triples160
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
Components1

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Object storage

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related to Development · 27
Object storage → According, Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University, Chris Malakapalli, Command Set Proposal, February, IBM, INCITS T-10, Information Technology Standards, International Committee, Introduced, IP Agreement, National Storage Industry Consortium, NSIC, Object, OBJECT BASED STORAGE DEVICES, October, Quantum, SCSI, Seagate
related to Origins · 27
Object storage → According, Another, Apollo Computer, Belgian, Blob, Cincinnatti, Cleveland, Digital Equipment Corporation, FilePool, Fine, Garth Gibson, Gibson's Carnegie Mellon University, Google File System, Howard Gobioff, In, Jim Starkey, McKiever, NASD, Network-Attached Secure Disks, Object
related to Market adoption · 21
Object storage → After, As, Atmos, China's Tianhe-2, EMC, EMC Atmos, EMC's Centera, Hitachi's HCP, June, Los Alamos National Lab, Lustre, March, Newer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Object-storage, On July, One, Sarbanes-Oxley, Scality RING, Titan
related to Market analysis · 13
Object storage → Cloudian, Coldago, Coldago Research, Coldago Research Map, DataCore, Dell EMC, Huawei, IBM, MinIO, Pure Storage, Quantum, The, VAST Data
related to Object-based storage devices · 12
Object storage → INCITS, Information Technology Standards, International Committee, Object, Object Storage Devices, Object-based Storage Device Commands, OSD, SCSI, Seagate Kinetic Open Storage, SNIA, T10, The SCSI
related to Cloud storage · 11
Object storage → Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, March, May, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Openstack, OpenStack Swift, Rackspace Cloud Files, Some, The
related to Object-storage systems · 10
Object storage → Another, EMC Centera, HCAP, Hitachi HCP, Lured, More, Platform, Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage, Some, Yahoo Mail
related to Programmatic data management · 8
Object storage → At, Create, CRUD, HTTP, Most API, Object, REST-based, Some
related to Unified file and object storage · 7
Object storage → Cloud, Hybrid, NFS, Object, Other, SMB, Unified File
related to Abstraction of storage · 6
Object storage → Administrators, Object, Objects, One, RAID, Thus

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object storage objects data file systems like key system object-storage set metadata osd value also attributes stores many one object-based

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
storing objects like videosinstance ofObject storage is used for purposes0.80text
photos on Facebookinstance ofObject storage is used for purposes0.80text
songs on Spotifyinstance ofObject storage is used for purposes0.80text
or files in online collaboration servicesinstance ofObject storage is used for purposes0.80text
such as Dropboxinstance ofObject storage is used for purposes0.80text
SMBinstance ofimplementing file access protocols0.80text
NFSinstance ofimplementing file access protocols0.80text
Memcachedinstance ofvalue stores0.80text
Redisinstance ofvalue stores0.80text
CouchDB.Object stores are similar to keyinstance ofvalue stores0.80text
eventual consistencyinstance ofobject stores usually offer weaker consistency guarantees0.80text
whereas keyinstance ofobject stores usually offer weaker consistency guarantees0.80text

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