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> Also it is now possible to open device files using file:open

Anyone want to write a high-performance, highly distributed object store in a BEAM language?

Based on my time at Basho observing and assisting with the development of Riak[1], I don't think you'll get the performance you want from built-in I/O, even with the new dirty scheduler support.

We (well, primarily Matthew Von-Maszewski) spent countless hours optimizing LevelDB as the most performant backend for most use cases.

You'd be much better off building atop Riak than starting your own object store from scratch.

[1]: Most active Riak development today is courtesy the NHS - https://github.com/nhs-riak/riak

Ha! I wonder whether all them Brexiteers knew that they weren't just saving the NHS but also Riak!

Having said that, Martin Sumner with the NHS created a Leveldb replacement in Erlang with some impressive performance characteristics before the latest BEAM I/O enhancements.

https://github.com/martinsumner/leveled

Correction: Basho's repository is still canonical. https://github.com/basho/riak/

I doubt for most distributed object stores (with consistency or availability guarantees), performance is bottlenecked by the underlying filesystem access. Probably, network latency runs the show.

To what degree that's true depends significantly on use case and architectural choices.

One design error we made with Riak in its early days was shuffling data around the servers via distributed Erlang, which led to some serious performance bottlenecks.

Distributed Erlang is better used for control messages; large blocks of data should be distributed out of band.

Nonetheless, our customers regularly needed assistance with disk tuning, because disk access does matter quite a bit.

Maybe something based on this paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/27/anna-a-kvs-for-any-scale... ?

CouchDB?

binaries, not structured objects. Redundancy via erasure coding, etc.

i got u

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