Introduction

The File Grid provides almost unlimited amount of storage for very large files (files in the terabytes range).

Automatic Operations

Th File Grid saved substantial maintenance effort by performing most important task automatically.

Automatic Failure Handling

If your node goes down, a neighbouring node will take over its storage operations. When the your node returns, the updates received by the neighbouring node are handed back to your node.

Automatic Capacity Management

When nodes are added to or removed from the grid, data is rebalanced automatically with no downtime. Data get re-distributed amongst the nodes until the load is equally spread around the grid.

Automatic Data Repair

Multiple copies of your data are kept on the grid (normally 3 copies). If there are inconsistencies between the copies, automatic strategies (e.g timestamps, quorum) or manual resolution can be used to repair the data.

Technical Overview

Storage Buckets

Currently 2 types of storage buckets are available.

Private Bucket:

1. Single Point Read & Write
2. Read & Write Caching
3. Deduplication
4. Compression
5. Encryption
6. Snapshots
7. Immutable Option

Private Buckets are great for storing private data e.g. backups, documents, photos, personal logs etc.

Community Bucket:

1. Multiple Point Read & Write
2. Read Caching
3. Streaming Download
4. Parallel Upload

Community Buckets are great for distributing community data e.g. sharing photos, broadcasting videos, releasing software, community logs etc.

Distribution Parameters

Storage Number: how many nodes to copy your data to (default 3).

Read Number: how many nodes must return read success to make read valid (default 1).

Write Number: how many nodes must return write success to make write valid (default 1).

Data Availability can easily be traded off with Data Integrity by adjusting the 3 numbers above.