Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems

Example applications and the benefits of using RADOS classes

As mentioned earlier, with RADOS classes, code is executed directly inside the OSD code base and so can harness the combined power of all of the OSD nodes. With a typical client application approach, where the client would have to read the object from the Ceph cluster, run computations on it, and then write it back, there is a large amount of round trip overheads. Using RADOS classes dramatically reduces the amount of round trips to and from OSDs, and also the available compute power is much higher than that single client could provide. Offloading operations directly to the OSDs therefore enables a single client to dramatically increase its processing rate.

A simple example of where ...