What is object storage?
What is object storage? In view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answers in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible way.
The most popular protocol in the Internet is the http protocol, and object storage has emerged. Object storage definition: object storage is a distributed storage system which is organized by flat data and accessed through RESTful interface based on http protocol.
The technology of object storage
Object storage does not support random read and write operations, but can only read and write all. It is oriented to the requirement scenario of unstructured data storage with one write and multiple reads. Object storage supports concurrent access by massive users, and provides distributed massive data storage services with high scalability, high persistence and high availability.
Object storage can be implemented at multiple levels, including device level (object storage device), system level, and interface level. In each case, object storage attempts to implement functions that cannot be solved by other storage architectures, such as interfaces that can be programmed directly by applications, namespaces that span multiple physical hardware instances, and data management functions. such as data replication and data distribution at the object level granularity.
Compared with the structured data storage technology of database, object storage is mainly for storing a large amount of unstructured data. Generally speaking, the photos, videos, audio and documents generated in our daily life belong to unstructured data. These daily data are suitable for storage in the object cloud.
Understanding of object storage
Website can be understood as web server,web server storage resources can also be simply divided into dynamic resources and static resources. However, when the business develops, in the scenario of high concurrency and high traffic, static resources will not take up too much computing power of web server, but will take up a lot of traffic of web server; dynamic resources will take up most of the computing power of web server (dynamic resources are often used to deliver tasks), but the traffic of web server is very small.
For the computing node (server), it is easy to expand the computing power, but it is difficult to expand the bandwidth and the bandwidth is expensive. If you put the dynamic resources of the delivery task and the static resources that occupy the bandwidth together, it is not optimal from the point of view of cost or maintenance. Then at this time, let the dynamic and static resources be completely separated and put the static resources in a storage system, which is object storage.
Benefits of object storage
Cloud storage management is convenient, unlimited bandwidth, BGP lines, high reliability disaster recovery and so on. Therefore, hosting static resources on object storage can save web server's valuable bandwidth resources and make web server more focused on transactions.
This is the end of the answer to the question about what is called object storage. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to solve, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.
