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What is object storage?

Object storage, the official term is: object storage is object-based storage, which is a general term used to describe the methods of solving and dealing with discrete units, which are called objects.

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At this time, if we continue to introduce:

Object storage provides data storage services in the form of objects based on distributed systems, and can access data through RESTful API data read and write interfaces and rich SDK interfaces.

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We can understand it as the package storage service of the shopping mall. The customer gives the bag (data) to the waiter (API interface), and the waiter gives the customer a voucher (object address URL). When customers want to pick up the bag, they only need to provide the voucher and do not need to know what form and where their bags are stored.

What are the characteristics of object storage

Unstructured storage: object storage is suitable for storing unstructured data. The documents, text, pictures, XML, HTML, various reports, audio and video information we see in our daily life are all unstructured data. According to statistics, since the development of social networks, unstructured data accounts for 75% of the total data.

Multi-node: take Tencent Cloud object Storage COS as an example. COS has storage rooms all over the world. To put it simply, no matter where you are, you can choose to store data in the nearest server room to speed up data transmission and access.

Flat structure: there is no concept of folders in object storage, and all data is stored at the same level. As mentioned in the above introduction, for data that exists in object storage, you do not need to know where it exists. You only need "credentials" to get the data quickly.

Elastic capacity expansion: the capacity of object storage is above EB level. How big is EB? 1EB ≈ 1 * 10 ^ 9 GB. This capacity is still rising, to put it simply, no matter how much data you have, please rest assured that the capacity is enough!

What's the use of object storage?

As mentioned earlier, object storage is suitable for storing unstructured data such as pictures and videos, and object storage makes it easy for you to use this data!

For example, a newly established educational institution wants its students to watch teaching videos and compare before and after using object storage:

Traditional way:

The teaching video is stored in each lecturer's computer, and each lecture is copied to the classroom with a USB disk to play.

The teaching video is stored in a network disk, which needs to be downloaded before each lecture, or the classroom computer needs to be equipped with a network disk application to preview and play it online.

The organization has set up a set of servers and developed an educational application to store the video in the server and play it in the application for students to watch.

Object Storage:

Store the video in the object storage and get the corresponding object address (simple understanding is a link). In class, open the browser, enter the object address, and play it online.

The organization has developed an educational application, which stores the video in the object storage, obtains the corresponding object address, puts the address in the application, and plays it online through the application.

Shanyan object storage product MOS

For the optimal solution of massive unstructured data storage, decentralized and distributed technology architecture is adopted to support 10 billion-level files and EB-level capacity storage.

With efficient data retrieval, intelligent tagging and analysis capabilities, it can easily meet the storage challenges of big data and the cloud era, and provide intelligent decision-making for enterprise development.

With the increasingly stringent requirements of audit and supervision in government, financial, medical, transportation and other industries, massive unstructured data generated by industry-related business systems, such as video, audio, pictures, documents, and so on, pose a greater challenge to storage space. SandStone MOS can provide infinitely expanded storage space and provide more intelligent processing features for data value extraction and analysis.

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