This article summarizes the design, architecture, and performance optimizations of KGraph, Kuaishou’s high‑throughput distributed graph database, covering its graph model, storage engine built on PMem, the KRPC network framework, scalability, key challenges, and future directions.
This article explains ByteKV's design—using range partitioning, a custom Raft implementation, multi‑layer architecture, and advanced load‑balancing strategies—to provide strong consistency, flexible data models, and seamless scalability for large‑scale storage workloads.
Baidu’s UNDB KV storage system, built with cloud‑native containerization and software‑hardware co‑design, separates key‑value processing to cut write amplification below 1.5×, leverages an OpenChannel SSD engine for over 30% performance gains, scales to 10,000+ servers and 100 PB, handles more than a trillion daily requests across search and feed, and cuts operating costs by nearly half.
This article explains the rapid growth of global spatiotemporal data, the limitations of traditional GIS, and presents SuperMap's distributed storage architecture, unified data access APIs, dynamic rendering techniques, and geographic processing modeling with real‑world case studies to address performance and scalability challenges.
The Xianyu instant‑messaging system evolved from a 2014 MVP to a robust, multi‑version architecture—adding distributed storage, hybrid sync, ACK‑based delivery, and feature‑driven monitoring—to handle billions of messages, improve stability, and boost user satisfaction, cutting technical complaints by half.
This article reviews Ceph's architecture, enumerates common benchmarking tools, analyzes its advantages and challenges, and presents a comprehensive set of performance‑optimization methods covering storage‑engine tuning, network communication, data placement, configuration parameters, hardware‑specific adaptations, and future research directions.
This article details how the logistics HR data preprocessing platform processes around 20 million daily records by adopting HBase for high‑performance, scalable, column‑oriented storage, covering its architecture, read/write mechanisms, best practices, and performance considerations.
This article analyzes the quantitative model for data reliability in distributed storage, covering factors such as disk count, replication factor, recovery time, annualized failure rate, and copyset configuration, and derives formulas to estimate yearly data loss probability for both replica and erasure‑coding schemes.
This article details ByteGraph, the high‑performance graph database behind TikTok, covering its motivation over relational stores, data model, Gremlin query language, multi‑layer architecture, indexing, hot‑spot handling, and offline‑online data pipelines, while answering common technical questions.
This article reviews typical cloud‑native storage options for stateful workloads, analyzes their advantages and drawbacks, discusses the specific needs of OLTP and OLAP databases, outlines challenges in multi‑cloud environments, and presents performance test results of four popular cloud‑native storage systems.
This article describes the architecture and optimization of JD.com’s coupon platform, covering the JimDB distributed in‑memory database for core storage, a massive distributed task system for product coupons, high‑availability strategies for store coupons, and the overall middle‑platform design that ensures scalability, low latency, and data consistency across millions of daily transactions.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Ceph, covering its origins, cluster architecture, CRUSH data placement algorithm, unified access interfaces, the transition from FileStore to BlueStore, and emerging storage back‑ends such as SeaStore and PFStore, highlighting performance characteristics and design trade‑offs.
This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of HBase, covering its Bigtable origins, distributed column‑store design, core components such as ZooKeeper, HMaster and RegionServer, data flow, storage formats, row‑key design, bulk loading, SQL integration, indexing, coprocessors, and performance tuning for big‑data environments.
Tencent’s cloud‑native database TDSQL‑C separates compute and storage, offering petabyte‑scale network‑attached storage, automatic scaling, million‑level QPS, MySQL/PostgreSQL compatibility, serverless per‑use billing, two‑level caching, instant snapshot‑based backup and restore, and a roadmap toward ultra‑minimal operations, multi‑region DR and column‑store analytics.
The article offers a comprehensive technical deep‑dive into ByteDance’s home‑grown distributed graph database and graph‑processing engine, ByteGraph, covering its directed‑property graph model, Gremlin query support, multi‑layer architecture, storage strategies for massive data, and real‑world graph‑computing practices.
This article presents Meituan's comprehensive evaluation of open‑source graph databases, the rationale for selecting NebulaGraph, and the design of a high‑availability, high‑throughput graph database platform that supports multi‑hop queries, massive data ingestion, real‑time synchronization, and visualization for various business scenarios.
As data volumes explode, Intel’s open‑source Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) offers a low‑latency, high‑bandwidth, NVM‑optimized platform that bridges the gap between high‑performance computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence workloads.
This guide outlines key hardware planning, SSD usage, BIOS settings, Linux and Ceph configuration tweaks, PG calculations, and performance tuning commands to optimize a Ceph distributed storage cluster for maximum throughput and reliability.
This material outlines the fundamental concepts and key concerns of distributed storage, provides an overview of four open‑source systems—HDFS, GlusterFS, OpenStack Swift, and Ceph—and presents a detailed functional comparison to help you choose the best solution for your data infrastructure.
In just 27 days, Douyin and Volcano Engine's cloud‑native team built a Kubernetes‑based, elastically scalable infrastructure that supported 703 billion red‑packet interactions and over a trillion live‑stream views during the 2021 Spring Festival Gala, ensuring zero downtime and seamless user experience.
This guide explains the architecture of GlusterFS, compares its volume types, walks through setting up a multi‑node cluster, configuring NFS‑Ganesha for NFSv4 access, and shows how to mount the storage from clients using both GlusterFS and NFS protocols.
This article investigates why AI training tasks on Tencent's Xingchen compute platform experience severe I/O slowdown when using CephFS, analyzes the underlying Ceph‑FUSE and MDS mechanisms, and proposes metadata‑caching and file‑caching optimizations that can accelerate training speed by three to four times.
This guide explains three ways to monitor Ceph distributed storage using Zabbix—Agent2 with the RESTful module, Zabbix Sender, and custom scripts—providing step‑by‑step commands, configuration tips, and troubleshooting notes for reliable operations.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Red Hat Ceph, covering its distributed object storage design, cluster architecture, storage pools, authentication, placement groups, CRUSH algorithm, I/O operations, replication, erasure coding, internal management tasks, high availability, client interfaces, data striping, and encryption mechanisms.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to HBase, covering its origins, column‑oriented NoSQL design, storage on HDFS, logical and physical structures, read/write workflows, performance optimizations, and common interview questions for big‑data engineers.
This article introduces FastDFS as a lightweight distributed file system, explains its tracker and storage components, provides step‑by‑step Docker installation commands, demonstrates how to integrate FastDFS with Spring Boot using Maven dependencies and configuration, and includes sample code for uploading, downloading, and deleting files.
This guide walks through the concepts, volume types, environment setup, cluster creation, and client mounting steps required to build a highly available GlusterFS distributed replicated storage system integrated with NFS‑Ganesha on Linux servers.
This article introduces a lightweight, open‑source netdisk system built with a front‑end Vue.js interface and a back‑end micro‑service architecture using SpringBoot, Dubbo, Zookeeper, Redis, Solr, and FastDFS, detailing its deployment, technology stack, and core features for file management and integration.
The article introduces IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS), describing its distributed shared‑parallel design, core components such as the management command set, kernel extensions, and daemon processes, and outlines practical deployment and performance considerations, especially in HPC environments.
This guide explains the differences between block, file, and object storage, outlines their advantages and drawbacks, introduces distributed storage concepts, and provides a detailed, code‑rich walkthrough for deploying a Ceph cluster—including environment setup, node configuration, CRUSH map tuning, and testing.
ByteGraph is ByteDance's home‑grown distributed graph storage and computation platform that supports massive social‑graph workloads with directed‑property models, Gremlin queries, multi‑layer architecture, adaptive KV storage, hot‑spot handling, indexing, and a roadmap toward cloud‑native, HTAP‑capable graph processing.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Red Hat Ceph, covering its distributed storage architecture, cluster components, storage pool types, authentication, placement algorithms, I/O paths, replication and erasure‑coding strategies, internal management operations, high‑availability mechanisms, client libraries, data striping, and encryption details.
CURVE is NetEase's open‑source, high‑performance, highly available distributed storage platform that supports block, object, and cloud‑native database use cases, emphasizing simple solutions, hardware‑software integration, and extensive open‑source component reuse.
This article analyzes a frequent slow‑request problem in a Ceph cluster caused by heavy write‑induced RocksDB compaction combined with deep‑scrub activity, explains the underlying scrub mechanisms, and presents parameter‑tuning and custom scheduling strategies to mitigate performance impact while preserving data consistency.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of storage architecture, covering centralized and distributed storage, block/file/object storage models, common protocols like NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, connection methods such as DAS, NAS, SAN, and examines typical distributed storage products including FastDFS and Swift.
This article introduces JD Cloud’s self‑built time‑series database HoraeDB, explaining its core concepts, typical use cases, architectural layers, high‑performance features, down‑sampling strategies, compression techniques, and stability measures for handling massive, 24‑hour monitoring data at scale.
This article explains how to design a high‑performance, billion‑user feed stream system, covering product definition, data modeling, storage choices, synchronization modes, metadata handling, commenting, likes, search, sorting, deletion, updates, and practical architecture examples for different feed‑type applications.
The article details how Didi’s large‑scale Ceph deployment suffered from high tail latency due to long‑held and coarse‑grained locks, and describes a series of fixes—including asynchronous read threads, fine‑grained object caches, per‑thread lock‑free logging, and lock‑free filestore apply—that cut latency by up to 90 % and more than doubled read throughput.
This guide walks through installing and configuring a Ceph distributed storage cluster, covering node preparation, hostname and hosts setup, password‑less SSH, required packages, firewall handling, time sync, ceph‑deploy installation, monitor creation, OSD configuration, pool and RBD creation, verification, and common troubleshooting steps.
This tutorial shows how to integrate the FastDFS distributed file system into a Spring Boot application, covering Maven dependencies, configuration files, utility classes, core client initialization, and controller code for uploading, downloading, retrieving, and deleting files, with complete code examples and a GitHub source link.
This article traces Ceph’s evolution from its academic origins to widespread adoption in cloud‑native environments, explains the four stages of storage development, details Ceph’s unified object, block, and file interfaces, and describes its architecture—including monitors, OSDs, CRUSH algorithm, placement groups, and high‑availability features.
NetEase Shufan has open‑sourced Curve, a high‑performance distributed storage system that claims 1.84× the IOPS of Ceph, offering low latency, high availability, and autonomous operation for cloud‑native workloads.
The article explains how Write Ahead Log (WAL) improves metadata persistence and disaster recovery in distributed storage systems such as HDFS by buffering changes, reducing synchronous database writes, and providing checkpoint and recovery mechanisms, while also discussing practical control options.
The article explains Alluxio's tiered metadata management architecture, describing how the system separates hot and cold metadata into cached and persisted layers, and details the custom asynchronous eviction thread and cache implementation that replace Guava cache for efficient large‑scale metadata handling.
This article details how Tencent Cloud’s TKE team identified, analyzed, reproduced, and resolved multiple etcd stability and performance issues—including data inconsistency, memory leaks, mvcc deadlocks, and WAL crashes—while sharing the lessons learned and the optimizations applied to support million‑node Kubernetes deployments.
This guide explains how to troubleshoot Ceph near‑full OSD warnings, understand PG fault states, manage OSD and monitor statuses, perform cluster configuration changes without restarts, add or remove OSDs and monitors, adjust pool settings, and handle user permissions using detailed command examples.
This article explains the fundamentals of Ceph, a high‑performance, highly available and scalable distributed storage system, covering its architecture, core components, data placement algorithms, storage interfaces, and typical deployment scenarios in cloud environments.
This article explains OPPO's cloud storage journey, covering distributed storage fundamentals, the architecture of its block storage platform, the role of Kubernetes and the Container Storage Interface, sidecar components, and the operational benefits of containerizing storage in a cloud‑native environment.
This article provides a comprehensive, hands‑on tutorial for installing and configuring Ceph as the backend storage for OpenStack, covering network planning, host setup, password‑less SSH, repository configuration, ceph‑deploy commands, pool creation, and integration with Glance, Cinder, and Nova services.
This article details Ctrip's Hadoop evolution, the challenges of expanding across multiple data centers, the evaluation of multi‑cluster versus single‑cluster designs, and the concrete architectural changes, migration tools, bandwidth monitoring, and future plans that enabled a stable cross‑datacenter big‑data platform.
Vivo’s feature‑storage platform, built on Nebula Graph’s Raft‑based, storage‑compute‑separated architecture and exposed via Redis‑compatible proxies, meets massive, low‑latency AI data demands while offering strong consistency, horizontal scalability, backup, active‑active replication, and a roadmap toward general‑purpose KV, cloud‑native integration, and advanced storage engines.
This article presents an in‑depth technical overview of ByteGraph, ByteDance’s self‑built distributed graph database and its accompanying graph‑computing engine, covering graph data characteristics, the directed‑property graph model, API design, three‑tier system architecture, storage strategies using KV stores and B‑Trees, hotspot handling, indexing, and future research directions.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of HBase, covering its LSM‑Tree based storage engine, key‑value data model, column‑family storage design, indexing mechanisms, major advantages and drawbacks, and typical scenarios where HBase excels for massive, high‑throughput data workloads.
This article describes JDHBase’s large‑scale KV storage architecture, its HBase‑based asynchronous replication mechanism, multi‑active cluster design, client‑side routing via Fox Manager, automatic failover strategies, dynamic replication tuning, and serial replication techniques to ensure data consistency across geographically distributed data centers.
Fusion-NewSQL is Didi’s internally‑developed NewSQL system built atop the Fusion distributed KV store, offering MySQL compatibility, high throughput, low latency, flexible schema changes, secondary indexes, and integration with ElasticSearch and Hive, with detailed architecture, data flow, and future roadmap.
This article describes JDHBase’s large‑scale KV storage deployment, its HBase‑based asynchronous replication mechanism, the multi‑active architecture with active‑standby clusters, client interaction via Fox Manager, automatic failover strategies, dynamic replication tuning, and serial replication techniques to ensure data consistency across data centers.
Meitu migrated its high‑traffic push‑service storage from fragmented Redis nodes to the TiKV‑based Titan system, using a dual‑write rollout, batch‑operation tuning, and TiKV configuration tweaks, achieving required QPS, cutting costs by about 60%, and delivering stable, maintainable service after six months.
This article provides a detailed technical overview of EMC's Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), covering its historical evolution, layered architecture, supported protocols, data protection mechanisms, performance characteristics, limitations, and future roadmap within the context of cloud object storage.
This lesson introduces object storage, explaining its concept, technical principles, market scale, advantages over traditional DAS/NAS/SAN solutions, and key architectural components, while highlighting scalability, cost efficiency, high availability, and design considerations for modern cloud storage systems.
The article details the three‑stage evolution of 58.com’s distributed key‑value storage system WTable, covering its initial architecture, performance and operational optimizations, and the introduction of NewSQL‑style strong consistency and Raft‑based replication to improve scalability and reliability.
The article introduces JDNoSQL, a distributed column‑oriented key‑value store built on HDFS, outlines its core features, describes various business scenarios including real‑time ad computation, details the system architecture with Kafka and Flink, and presents table designs for ad impression and click statistics.
FastLoad, Didi’s one‑click DTS platform, accelerates migration of terabyte‑scale offline data into its Fusion storage by using RocksDB’s IngestFile to import SST files directly, cutting a 1 TB load from twelve hours to one, while supporting thousands of daily tasks with 99.99% stability.
This article reviews the evolution of etcd’s read‑write mechanisms, explains the “Fully Concurrent Read” feature introduced in etcd 3.4, and presents experimental results showing how it dramatically reduces expensive read latency and improves overall throughput in Kubernetes clusters.
This article introduces Nebula Graph, an open‑source distributed graph database, detailing its directed property graph model, vertex and edge schemas, graph partitioning, storage, metadata, query engine, and client APIs, highlighting its strong schema design, high‑availability architecture, and scalability for trillion‑scale graphs.
When the mfsmaster node in a six‑node MFS distributed storage cluster becomes unresponsive, the issue can be resolved by using metalogger on another node to restore the metadata file, copy it to the master directory, adjust permissions, and restart the mfsmaster service.
This article introduces CB‑SQL, a MySQL‑compatible elastic database built on CockroachDB and RocksDB, explains RocksDB’s LSM‑tree design, details key configuration parameters, and describes the read/write/clear/file‑operation optimizations employed by CB‑SQL to achieve high scalability and stability.
FeatureKV, WeChat’s high‑performance key‑value store, handles one‑billion queries per second and ingests a billion keys per hour by separating write‑only DataSvr from read‑only KVSvr, supporting in‑memory, indexed, and block‑indexed tables, scaling horizontally, guaranteeing eventual consistency with versioned reads, and delivering up to 11 billion reads per second with sub‑15 ms latency.
This article explains how the WTable distributed key‑value store leverages RocksDB’s LSM‑tree architecture and slot‑based data distribution to redesign its scaling workflow, separating full and incremental data migration to reduce compaction overhead and achieve high‑speed, low‑impact cluster expansion.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of HBase, covering its distributed column‑oriented architecture, data model components, storage mechanisms, read/write processes, WAL lifecycle, MemStore flushing, region splitting and merging, and failure recovery within the Hadoop ecosystem.
This article examines JD.com's massive HBase deployment, detailing its evolution from early adoption to a 90PB, 7,000‑node cluster, the platform's architecture, multi‑active disaster recovery, multi‑tenant isolation, and the integration of Phoenix for SQL‑based access, offering practical insights for large‑scale distributed storage.
The article reviews the essential infrastructure for autonomous driving, covering massive sensor data storage strategies, the role of metadata, offline and real‑time computing platforms, basic micro‑service components, and various business scenarios, highlighting why robust big‑data handling is critical.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Red Hat’s Ceph and GlusterFS open‑source storage solutions, detailing their underlying architectures—including RADOS, CephFS, RBD, and Gluster’s brick‑based design—while discussing performance, scalability, high‑availability, hardware requirements, and suitability for various cloud environments.
This article explains Ceph's distributed storage design, detailing how clients use RADOS to map files to objects, objects to placement groups, and placement groups to OSDs, while covering component roles, metadata handling, Xattr limits, and the impact of PGs on OSD communication overhead.
NebulasFs is a self‑developed distributed, highly available, and persistent storage system designed to efficiently store billions of small files, offering simple RESTful APIs, automatic request routing, multi‑tenant isolation, customizable replication, automated scaling, rebalancing, and fault‑tolerant replica recovery for large‑scale unstructured data workloads.
NebulasFs is a self‑developed distributed, highly available and durable storage system designed to efficiently store billions of small files by using a master‑datanode architecture, multi‑tenant isolation, customizable replication, automatic scaling, and automated replica repair, addressing the challenges of massive unstructured data generated by modern applications.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Ceph, covering its architecture and use cases, detailed IO processes, heartbeat mechanisms, communication framework, the CRUSH data placement algorithm, and customizable RBD QoS policies, illustrated with diagrams and code snippets to help readers understand and implement Ceph in cloud environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Ceph distributed storage system, covering its architecture, storage types, internal IO processes, heartbeat mechanisms, communication framework, CRUSH data placement algorithm, and customizable RBD QoS using token‑bucket scheduling.
QTSDB is a distributed time‑series database built on InfluxDB 1.7 that adds cluster capabilities such as horizontal scaling, replica fault‑tolerance, automatic data expiration, and high‑throughput writes, while preserving InfluxDB's query syntax and storage engine features.
This article presents the architecture and key design features of WOS, the 58 Group’s self‑developed object storage system, covering its overall framework, proxy, store, directory, detector modules, fast‑upload “秒传” mechanism, and erasure‑coding solution for efficient, scalable, and reliable unstructured data storage.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Ceph, covering its architecture, key components, storage types, IO processes, heartbeat detection, communication framework, CRUSH data placement algorithm, and customizable RBD QoS mechanisms, with detailed diagrams and pseudo‑code explanations.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Red Hat Ceph's distributed object storage architecture, covering storage pools, CRUSH placement, authentication, I/O workflows, internal operations, client interfaces, data striping, erasure coding, high availability, and encryption mechanisms for secure, scalable deployments.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of Ceph’s distributed storage architecture, explaining the roles of RADOS, OSD, Monitor, and Metadata Cluster, and detailing the three-step data mapping process from file to object, to placement group, and finally to OSD storage.
This article introduces the concepts of block, file, and object storage and reviews several open‑source distributed object storage solutions—including Swift, Ceph, MinIO, HBase MOB, and Hadoop Ozone—highlighting their architectures, features, and typical use cases for large‑scale data handling.
Modern instant messaging platforms have evolved from simple CS/P2P designs to complex distributed architectures that store messages before synchronizing, enabling features like multi-device sync, message roaming, and online search, with Alibaba Cloud Tablestore’s Timeline model providing scalable storage, indexing, and flexible synchronization strategies.
This article introduces HBase, its origins from Google Bigtable, core concepts such as RowKey, Column Family, and Versioning, and explains its logical and physical table views, storage mechanisms, and cluster architecture within the Hadoop ecosystem.
This article explains how JD.com leverages the open‑source HBase database for massive, low‑latency data storage across various business lines, detailing its architecture, multi‑tenant isolation, disaster‑recovery mechanisms, and integration with Phoenix SQL for OLTP workloads.
Tencent CynosDB achieves high availability and rapid recovery through an external HA service that combines a co‑located monitoring agent, a ZooKeeper‑backed scheduler for fault detection, decision making, and automated switch/rejoin/rebuild actions, and a VDL‑driven distributed storage recovery mechanism that prevents split‑brain scenarios.
The Beijing technical exchange detailed Tencent Cloud CynosDB’s compute-storage separation architecture, explaining how CynosStore’s block and file-system layers asynchronously persist write-ahead logs via Raft, provide multi-transaction atomicity, continuous snapshots, and rapid recovery, while benchmarks demonstrate high log-throughput and the Q&A covered tenancy, failover, and scaling.
The article details the step‑by‑step evolution of the WeChat‑like instant messaging platform at 58 Group, describing how the system transitioned from a simple PHP short‑connection architecture to a layered micro‑service architecture using Java‑based RPC, Go‑based short‑connection services, distributed storage, message queues, and clear separation of storage, logic, and interface layers.
This article explains HBase as a high‑performance, column‑oriented distributed storage system, outlines its advantages and limitations, presents real‑world scenarios such as seller operation logs and message logs, and details its data structures, architecture components, and design considerations for big‑data applications.
This article details the architectural evolution and comprehensive refactoring of Tencent's CKV distributed in-memory key-value storage system, highlighting its transition to a two-tier single-process multi-threaded model, multi-tenant resource isolation, deep Redis protocol compatibility, and optimized memory engine, which collectively deliver significant improvements in performance, scalability, and operational cost efficiency.
The article summarizes the technical talk from the 58 Group technology salon, detailing the architectures, scalability, high‑availability mechanisms, and storage models of Kuaishou's BlobStore and 58's WOS, and compares their design choices for large‑scale object storage.
CynosDB, Tencent’s PostgreSQL‑compatible NewSQL service, separates compute and storage, uses a log‑based distributed CynosStore with idempotent logs, offloads CRC checks, and implements async table extension, eliminating full‑page writes and dirty‑page flushing to deliver scalable, cost‑effective performance while preserving PostgreSQL features.
This article provides a beginner-friendly overview of traditional CDN components, their relationships, and a step‑by‑step download workflow, covering entry service, core indexing, core storage, content management, edge storage, and content distribution without delving into advanced features like grouping or P2P.
The article explains the formation of the Ceph Foundation, outlines Ceph’s widespread adoption, and provides a detailed, step‑by‑step analysis of the Scrub and Deep‑Scrub processes, highlighting their operation, limitations, and ongoing efforts to improve automatic repair.
This article explains the core Elasticsearch architecture—including shard routing, primary‑replica interaction, document CRUD workflows, multi‑document APIs, segment merging, translog durability, and storage file formats—providing a comprehensive view of how near‑real‑time search is achieved on large‑scale data.
This article presents Lest, a persistent KV‑store cache designed to overcome the limitations of traditional in‑memory caches by combining disk‑based persistence, lock‑free multithreading, custom protocols, and advanced load‑balancing, and it evaluates its performance on petabyte‑scale workloads.
The article summarizes the 58 Group technical salon where experts compared Meituan‑Dianping's Cellar and 58's WTable distributed KV storage systems, detailing their architectures, improvements, scalability, high‑availability mechanisms, and operational considerations, and concludes with a comparative analysis and preview of the next session.
This article explains Ceph's distributed storage architecture, covering its origins, RADOS client interactions, cluster map updates, the roles of OSDs, Monitors, metadata clusters, and the three-step mapping process from files to objects, placement groups, and finally to storage devices using the CRUSH algorithm.
The 13th OSDI conference in Carlsbad attracted over 650 attendees, featuring 47 accepted papers and three Best Papers—two led by Chinese students—while Alibaba showcased its latest OS kernel (AliKernel), next‑generation distributed storage system Pangu 2.0, and the large‑scale resource manager Sigma, sparking lively discussions among global experts.
