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This article mainly introduces "what advantages MinIO has". In daily operation, I believe many people have doubts about what advantages MinIO has. Xiaobian consulted various materials and sorted out simple and easy operation methods. I hope to help you answer the doubts about "what advantages MinIO has"! Next, please follow the small series to learn together!

I: Installation deployment (O & M) complexity

Before companies used fastDFS, only a few people were able to master the deployment structure of fastDFS. Therefore, if there were any problems, there were only a few people who could take over. To deploy a fastDFS distributed service, you need to know

Linux basic directory operations

Common distributed master-slave principle

Compilation of C Language Code

nginx installation deployment

Use of nginx plug-ins (anti-theft chain)

If it is only the above basic knowledge, arrange a few programmers to learn it is also easy to say. The main thing is that fastdfs deployment structure is so complex that if I don't look back for a long time, I will forget what this complex architecture is all about. When I saw the MinIO installation process and distributed deployment commands (Distributed MinIO Quick Start), I was more than halfway through my decision to abandon fastDFS. To put it bluntly: FastDFS deployment is just the assembly process of parts, you need to understand fastDFS architecture design, in order to be able to install deployment correctly. MinIO installation process is black box, you do not have to pay close attention to its architecture, do not need you to assemble parts, basically can be done out of the box. Ordinary technicians can participate in post-operation operations.

II: Documentation

I think it's been ten years since I knew fastDFS. There was actually no official document. All the documents were summarized by the company itself, or by the netizens themselves. From this point of view, fastDFS was really a failure. Of course, when Ali Yuqing did this project, he might not have considered that there would be so many people later. Even if more people used it, in the eyes of God Yu Qing, he might think that it was just a small toy he had developed and that there was no need to continue to operate in depth.

III: Open Source Project Operation Organization

fastdfs is a personal project done by Ali Yuqing. It has applications in some Internet start-ups, no official website, inactive, 6 contributors. There are very few updates now. MinIO is currently an open source project run by MinIO.Inc, a Silicon Valley company founded in 2014, and the community forum is currently very active.

IV: UI interface

We all know that fastDFS defaults to no UI. Take a look at MinIO's interface. This interface does not require you to deploy it separately, but to install it with the server. Out of the box, love it, love it.

V: Performance

MinIO claims to be the fastest object storage server in the world. On standard hardware, read/write speeds for object storage can be up to 183 GB/s and 171 GB/s. About fastDFS I once wrote 200,000 files in a single-threaded test, totaling 200 gigabytes, which took about 10 hours. Overall, it is difficult to achieve MinIO's "claimed" read/write speed in G per second.

VI: containerization support

MinIO provides deep integration solutions with containerization technologies such as k8s, etcd, docker, etc., which can be said to be born for cloud environments. This is something FastDFS does not have.

VII: Rich SDK support

fastDFS currently offers C and Java SDKs, as well as PHP extensions SDKs. The following figure shows SDK support provided by MinIO. MinIO provides SDK and documentation for almost all major development languages. What matters, comrades, is the documentation.

Not that PHP is not mainstream ah, do not want to lead to war. He had a strong desire to survive.

Eight: AWS S3 standard compatibility

Amazon's S3 API is the de facto standard in the field of object storage. MinIO was the de facto standard for S3 compatibility, one of the first to adopt an API and the first to add support for S3 Select. More than 750 companies, including Microsoft Azure, use MinIO's S3 gateway, more than the rest of the industry combined.

What do you mean? That means you use MinIO now to save costs, and when your company grows and has money. If you don't want to operate your own infrastructure, you can put your object storage on the cloud. As long as the cloud vendor supports the S3 standard, your application doesn't need to be redeveloped.

At this point, the study of "What are the advantages of MinIO" is over, hoping to solve everyone's doubts. Theory and practice can better match to help everyone learn, go and try it! If you want to continue learning more relevant knowledge, please continue to pay attention to the website, Xiaobian will continue to strive to bring more practical articles for everyone!

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