2022/11/16 by Nicolau Manubens, Manubens, Nicolau, Simon D. Smart +4
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Distributed #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.09162
openalex publication_date 2022/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
High-performance object stores are an emerging technology which offers an alternative solution in the field of HPC storage, with potential to address long-standing scalability issues in traditional distributed POSIX file systems due to excessive consistency assurance and metadata prescriptiveness. In this paper we assess the performance of storing object-like data within a standard file system, where the configuration and access mechanisms have not been optimised for object access behaviour, and compare with and investigate the benefits of using an object storage system. Whilst this approach is not exploiting the file system in a standard way, this work allows us to investigate whether the underlying storage technology performance is more or less important than the software interface and infrastructure a file system or object store provides.