OpenIO offered
object storage
Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data a ...
for a wide range of high-performance applications.
OpenIO was founded in 2015 by Laurent Denel (
CEO
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), Jean-François Smigielski (
CTO) and five other co-founders; it leveraged
open source software
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, developed since 2006, based on a
grid technology
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that enabled dynamic behaviour and supported heterogenous hardware. In October 2017 OpenIO completed a $5 million funding round. In July 2020 OpenIO had been acquired by
OVH
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and withdrawn from the market to become the core technology of
OVHcloud
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object storage offering.
Software
OpenIO is a
software-defined object store that supports
S3 and can be deployed
on-premises
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,
cloud-hosted or at the
edge
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, on any hardware mix. It has been designed from the beginning for performance and cost-efficiency at any scale, and it has been optimized for
Big Data
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,
HPC and
AI.
OpenIO stores objects within in a flat structure within a massively distributed directory with
indirections, which allows the data query path to be independent of the number of nodes and the performance not to be affected by the growth of capacity. Servers are organized as a grid of nodes massively
distributed Distribution may refer to:
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, where each node takes part in directory and storage services, which ensures that there is no
single point of failure
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and that new nodes are automatically discovered and immediately available without the need to rebalance data.
The software is built on top of a technology that ensures optimal data placement based on real-time metrics and allows the addition or removal of storage devices with automatic performance and
load impact optimization. For data protection OpenIO has synchronous and asynchronous
replication with multiple copies, and an
erasure coding
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implementation based on
Reed-Solomon that can be deployed in one data center or geo-distributed or stretched
clusters.
The software has a feature that catches all events that occur in the cluster and can pass them up in the
stack
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or to applications running on OpenIO nodes. This enables
event-driven
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computing directly into the storage infrastructure.
The open source code is available o
Githuband it is licensed under
AGPL3 for server code and
LGPL3 for client code.
Performance
OpenIO claimed in 2019 to have reached 1.372 Tbps write speed (171 GB/s) on a cluster of 350 physical machines. The benchmark scenario, conducted under production conditions with standard hardware (commodity servers with 7200 rpm
HDDs), consisted in backing up a 38
PB Hadoop
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datalake via the DistCp command. This level of performance marked, according to analysts,
the arrival of a new generation of
object storage
Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data a ...
technologies oriented toward high performance and hyper-scalability.
See also
*
Object storage
Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data a ...
*
Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools, said to be on "the cloud". The physical storage spans multiple servers (sometimes in multiple locations), and the physical environment is t ...
*
Backup software
Backup software are computer programs used to perform a backup; they create supplementary exact copies of files, databases or entire computers. These programs may later use the supplementary copies to restore the original contents in the event of d ...
*
Big Data
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
References
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External links
OpenIO DocumentationOpenIO Github repository
Object storage
Computer storage companies
Distributed data storage
Cloud storage
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