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vrancurel edited this page Sep 17, 2011 · 59 revisions

Welcome to the Scality Droplet wiki!

Scality Droplet is a high perfomance Cloud Storage client library which provides a set of high-level features:

Today (v0.5 beta):

Multi-profile system
Fully multi-threaded (efficient in a Datacenter environment)
Performance testing tool
Virtual directories with true absolute and relative path support
On-the-fly encryption/decryption and buffered I/O
Manages storage pricing
Metadata management

Lib has been tested on Linux x86_32 and 64 bits architectures only.

Roadmap:

Multiple backends: S3, CDMI, etc
Read cache for files and virtual directories
On-the-fly compression/uncompression
Automatic splitting of big files
Intelligent copies among buckets
Support for Solaris, MacOS/X, BSD, etc
Support for different languages
File hierarchy sync
Range support for both plaintext and encrypted files (it is why we use CFB mode)
Archive Abstraction Layer

Menu:

Getting started (basic configuration and first commands)
configuration file (profile)
Pricing files syntax (if pricing is required)
dplsh (the Droplet shell)
API overview (C API)
A C example

Please report bugs and comments to droplet at scality.com.