April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
The traditional way of providing high availability of data in Swift is to maintain multiple copies of it and disperse them on different regions, zones, nodes, and disks. This strategy works well from a redundancy perspective but the storage cost associated with this approach is quite high. With a default replication level of three copies for each object stored, the amount of available storage is reduced to a third of the actual available capacity.
Depending of the criticality of the data, you may be willing to invest in maintaining data in triplicate for redundancy. This presents a challenge to afford an expensive Swift object storage system to fulfill data availability and performance requirements. The Swift ...
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