CubeFS

Community Meeting
The CubeFS Project holds bi-weekly community online meeting. To join or watch previous meeting notes and recordings, please see meeting schedule and meeting minutes.

Overview

CubeFS ("储宝" in Chinese) is an open-source cloud-native distributed file & object storage system, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a graduated project.

What can you build with CubeFS

• As an open-source distributed storage, CubeFS can serve as your datacenter filesystem, data lake storage infra, and private or hybrid cloud storage.

• Moreover, it can be run in public cloud services, providing cache acceleration and file system semantics on top of public cloud storage such as S3.

• In particular, CubeFS enables the separation of storage/compute architecture for databases, search systems, and AI/ML applications.

Some key features of CubeFS include:

• Multiple access protocols such as POSIX, HDFS, S3, and its own REST API
• Highly scalable metadata service with strong consistency
• Performance optimization of large/small files and sequential/random writes
• Multi-tenancy support with better resource utilization and tenant isolation
• Hybrid cloud I/O acceleration through multi-level caching
• Flexible storage policies, high-performance replication or low-cost erasure coding

Documents

• English version: https://cubefs.io/docs/master/overview/introduction.html
• Chinese version: https://cubefs.io/zh/docs/master/overview/introduction.html

Community

• Homepage: cubefs.io
• Mailing list: users@cubefs.groups.io.
  • Please subscribe on the page https://groups.io/g/cubefs-users/ or send your email to cubefs-users+subscribe@groups.io to apply.
• Slack: cubefs.slack.com
• WeChat: detail see here
• Twitter: cubefs_storage

Governance

Governance documentation plays a crucial role in establishing clear guidelines, procedures, and structures within an organization or project

Contribute

Contributing to CubeFS

There is a clear definition of roles and their promotion paths.

• Becoming a Maintainer
• Becoming a committer
• Becoming a TSC Member

Partners and Users

There is the list of users and success stories ADOPTERS.md.

Reference

Haifeng Liu, et al., CFS: A Distributed File System for Large Scale Container Platforms. SIGMOD‘19, June 30-July 5, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

For more information, please refer to https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3299869.3314046 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03001

License

CubeFS is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. For detail see LICENSE and NOTICE.

Note

The master branch may be in an unstable or even broken state during development. Please use releases instead of the master branch in order to get a stable set of binaries.

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