From his perspective, object storage was just for unstructured data, while databases were about storing “mutable metadata.” And compared to the enormous amounts of unstructured data in the cloud, ...

As mentioned earlier, databases and file systems (including HDFS) have played a role in data warehousing and data lake implementations. There are also object stores for on-premises implementations and ...

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost ...

Object storage in particular is expanding. In use cases such as data protection, media & entertainment, and storage as a service, object storage is gaining traction. This is leading to a healthy ...

Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on ...

S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases.

Don’t look now, but object stores – those vast repositories of data sitting behind an S3 API – are beginning to resemble databases. They’re obviously still separate categories today, but as the ...

There's a great buzz around object storage. Though the basic technology has been around since the 1990s, its popularity is only now starting to grow rapidly. Is object storage the right solution ...

Australian startup offers single namespace file and object storage with rapid access via a metadata database that puts the right data in the right place depending on ...

A research team with members from ETH Zurich has discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. This makes it possible to save extensive data in, say, shirt buttons, ...