Re: [Openstack] [Design] Why/how object storage(Swift) better than scale-out NAS?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Li, Leon leon@emc.com wrote: However a scale-out NAS could also have these benefits, if you build the scale-out NAS with open source cluster FS(for example HDFS), just like many Internet company did. Please feel free to considerate contributing to this

[Openstack] [Design] Why/how object storage(Swift) better than scale-out NAS?

Hi, I have googled and found some answers but they are not to the point I think. Why foundation choice object storage other than scale-out NAS? I see some points about benefit of object storage(swift) *Storing billions of files. *Storing Petabytes (millions of Gigabytes) of

Re: [Openstack] [Design] Why/how object storage(Swift) better than scale-out NAS?

*REF :* http://www.quora.com/What-features-differentiate-HDFS-and-OpenStack-Object-Storage by ChunkThier While there are some similarities between HDFS and Openstack Object Storage (Swift), the overall design of the systems are very different. 1. HDFS uses a central system to maintain file