Hi All,

Apache Ozone works well, AFAIK [1] but it certainly requires more setup
work than MinIO.

WDYT about RustFS? [2]

[1]
https://polaris.apache.org/in-dev/unreleased/getting-started/creating-a-catalog/s3/catalog-ozone/

[2] https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

Cheers,
Dmitri.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 8:46 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Yong,
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
>
> I agree with your assessment regarding the recent changes to MinIO OSS. We
> could evaluate Apache Ozone as a potential alternative; while STS might
> require more changes, I believe it’s worth investigating.
>
> In the short term, we could update the quickstart guide to use AWS S3 while
> we wait to finalize the Ozone integration.
> About Ceph, that's a good idea, assuming we have the same kind of
> layout/experience.
>
> Regards,
> JB
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 7:49 AM Yong Zheng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have MinIO support as S3 compatible storage and this is great as it
> > allows users to quickly test out Apache Polaris as a catalog and write
> to a
> > S3 compatible storage. However, as MinIO is now under maintenance mode
> only
> > for OSS (https://github.com/minio/minio?tab=readme-ov-file), we won't be
> > able to get updated images from public image registry, should we consider
> > switch our primary getting-start example to non-MinIO one instead (the
> > current one is MinIO as backend:
> >
> https://github.com/apache/polaris/blob/main/getting-started/quickstart/docker-compose.yml
> )?
> > Without doing so, users will be likely pulling down outdated MinIO images
> > with critical CVEs couple months later for their local setup to play
> > around. If using outdated MinIO is a concern as the getting-start
> example,
> > maybe we should switch to the Ceph one (
> >
> https://github.com/apache/polaris/blob/main/getting-started/ceph/docker-compose.yml
> )
> > but updated it to match the same layout?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yong Zheng
> >
>

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