MinIO

MinIO Object Storage
Developer(s)	MinIO, Inc
Initial release	11 March 2016; 8 years ago
Stable release	2024-02-14T21-36-02Z / 14 February 2024; 5 months ago
Repository	github.com/minio/minio ;
Written in	Go
Type	Object storage
License	GNU Affero GPL
Website	min.io

MinIO is an object storage system released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.^[3] 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.^[4]

History & development

MinIO is developed by MinIO Inc, a Silicon Valley–based technology startup in November 2014.^[5]

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.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8]

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.^[9]

MinIO Client SDK

MinIO provides client SDKs for for Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, Haskell, and .NET Framework to access any Amazon S3 compatible object storage server.^[10]^{[failed verification]}

References

^ "minio/minio at RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z". GitHub.
^ "Bugfix release".
^ "Kubernetes storage: It's object or nothing for MinIO | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
^ "MinIO Documentation: Thresholds and Limits". min.io. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
^ Miller, Ron (2023-05-15). "Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ Mellor, Chris (2019-07-24). "Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio". blocksandfiles.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
^ "MinIO fires fresh salvo in object storage speed wars". 13 November 2019.
^ "Hyperscale ML with Kubeflow, MinIO, TensorFlow and Diamanti". 14 November 2020.
^ "MinIO Quickstart Guide". GitHub. 20 November 2021.
^ Nicolas, Philippe (2016-07-15). "The History Boys: Object storage ... from the beginning". The Register.

External links

Official website
minio on GitHub

[1] "minio/minio at RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z". GitHub.

[wikidata-1e0a1a04e5ccbea8c8aaffd57daada5ce022bc1f-v13-2] "Bugfix release".

[3] "Kubernetes storage: It's object or nothing for MinIO | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-11-03.

[4] "MinIO Documentation: Thresholds and Limits". min.io. Retrieved 2024-05-23.

[5] Miller, Ron (2023-05-15). "Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[BandF-6] Mellor, Chris (2019-07-24). "Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio". blocksandfiles.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.

[7] "MinIO fires fresh salvo in object storage speed wars". 13 November 2019.

[8] "Hyperscale ML with Kubeflow, MinIO, TensorFlow and Diamanti". 14 November 2020.

[9] "MinIO Quickstart Guide". GitHub. 20 November 2021.

[10] Nicolas, Philippe (2016-07-15). "The History Boys: Object storage ... from the beginning". The Register.

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