MinIO
{{Short description|High Performance Object Storage released under the AGPL open-source license}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = MinIO
| title = MinIO Object Storage
| logo =
| developer = MinIO, Inc
| released = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2016|03|11}}{{Cite web|title=minio/minio at RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z|url=https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z|website=GitHub|language=en}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|P348}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}
| programming language = Go
| genre = Object storage
| license = GNU Affero GPL
}}
MinIO is an object storage system released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.{{Cite web |title=Kubernetes storage: It's object or nothing for MinIO {{!}} Computer Weekly |url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553212/Kubernetes-storage-Its-object-or-nothing-for-MinIO |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=ComputerWeekly.com |language=en}} It is API compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. It is capable of working with unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images with the maximum supported object size being 50TB.{{Cite web |title=MinIO Documentation: Thresholds and Limits |url=https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/thresholds.html |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=min.io |language=en}}
History & development
MinIO is developed by MinIO Inc, a Silicon Valley{{En dash}}based technology startup in November 2014.{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Ron |date=2023-05-15 |title=Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source |url=https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/15/hear-how-minio-built-a-unicorn-in-object-storage-on-top-of-kubernetes-and-open-source/ |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}
MinIO has published a number of benchmarks to disclose both its own performance and the performance of an object storage in general. These benchmarks include comparisons to an Amazon S3 for Trino, Presto, and Spark, as well as throughput results for the S3Benchmark on HDD and NVMe drives.{{cite web |last1=Mellor |first1=Chris |date=2019-07-24 |title=Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio |url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/07/24/minio-object-storage-benchmarks/ |accessdate=2021-10-17 |website=blocksandfiles.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/11/13/minio-benchmark-object-storage-speed-wars/|title = MinIO fires fresh salvo in object storage speed wars|date = 13 November 2019}}
Architecture
MinIO's storage stack has three major components: MinIO Server, MinIO Client (a.k.a. mc, which is a command-line client for the object and file management with any Amazon S3 compatible servers), and MinIO Client SDK, which can be used by application developers to interact with any Amazon S3 compatible server.
= MinIO Server =
MinIO cloud storage server is designed to be bundled along with an existing application stack, and is optimized for large enterprise deployments. MinIO server can be installed both on physical and virtual machines or launched as Docker containers and deployed on container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.{{Cite web|url=https://diamanti.com/hyperscale-ml-with-kubeflow-minio-tensorflow-and-diamanti/|title = Hyperscale ML with Kubeflow, MinIO, TensorFlow and Diamanti|date = 14 November 2020}}
= MinIO Client =
MinIO Client provides an alternative to the standard UNIX commands (e.g. ls, cat, cp, mirror, diff, etc.) and adds support for Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage services. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms.{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/minio/minio#binary-download|title = MinIO Quickstart Guide|website = GitHub|date = 20 November 2021}}
= MinIO Client SDK =
MinIO provides client SDKs for Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, Haskell, and .NET Framework to access any Amazon S3 compatible object storage server.{{Cite news|last=Nicolas|first=Philippe|date=2016-07-15|title=The History Boys: Object storage ... from the beginning|language=en|work=The Register|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/15/the_history_boys_cas_and_object_storage_map/}}{{failed verification|reason=The linked article mentions MinIO only in a bulleted list, never again; and certainly doesn't substantiate this claim.|date=October 2021}}
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External links
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- {{official website}}
- {{github|minio/minio}}