[Openstack] Object storage only - Swift or Ceph ?

Cedric Lemarchand cedric at yipikai.org
Wed Dec 25 11:56:15 UTC 2013


Le 23/12/2013 20:16, Jeffrey Walton a écrit :
> 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?
Thank for the checks list, I will try keep that in my mind ;-)
For my goals, swift seams to be the good choice.

Cédric




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