[Openstack] Object storage only - Swift or Ceph ?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 19:16:11 UTC 2013


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Kuo Hugo <tonytkdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cedric,
>
> As John said, you should try both to find which is the best choice for you.
> I'm not gonna to tell you which is the best choice for you. It depends on
> your use cases. I think the following evaluation items is a good beginning.
>
> * How many concurrency users ?
> * Do you have existing authentication method ?
> * How's the average object size ?
> * Do you need more than one swift-proxy or Ceph RadosGW ?
> * What's the expected singe file transfer speed ?
> * How's the C/P of these two solutions with same HW ?
> * How's the time costs to maintain / deploy / troubleshooting ?
> * Any special needs
I know Swift using RESTful services. Would you happen to know what
Ceph uses as its API?

Jeff




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