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Iceberg Views in AIStor Tables
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Engine-agnostic Iceberg views enable virtual tables across Spark, Trino, and Dremio
Apache Ecosystem
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AIStor Tables: Native Iceberg V3 for On-Premises Object Storage
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First object store supporting Iceberg V3 with deletion vectors and native geospatial types
Apache Ecosystem
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Understanding the Difference Between Business Catalogs and Iceberg REST Catalogs
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Technical vs platform vs business catalogs—enterprises need all three layers working together for AI/analytics
Data Lakes & Analytics
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The Case for Embedding Delta Sharing into Object Storage
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Embedding Delta Sharing protocol into object storage for secure data sharing
Data Lakes & Analytics
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Apache Iceberg as the Foundation for Enterprise AI Data: Why MinIO Made Tables Native In AIStor
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Iceberg as foundation for enterprise AI—Tables native in AIStor unifies structured/unstructured data for agentic AI readiness
AIStor
Apache Ecosystem
AIStor Tables: Technical Deep Dive
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Native Iceberg Catalog REST API implementation with warehouse-namespace-table hierarchy
AIStor
AI/ML
Apache Ecosystem
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Object Storage Optimized Databases: Trends & Industry Leaders
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Databases optimized for object storage using S3 API for disaggregated compute-storage architecture
Data Lakes & Analytics
Architecture & Design Patterns
Storage & Infrastructure
Integrations & Partners
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Cloud Repatriation: Why Enterprises Are Moving Workloads Off Hyperscalers
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Cloud repatriation economics: Save 77% on 10PB storage—$1.7M/yr private cloud vs $7.3M/yr public cloud S3
Cloud Infrastructure
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Data Lakehouse Security: Supporting Scalable Analytics and AI Workloads
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Security best practices for data lakehouses supporting enterprise analytics and AI workloads
Security
Data Lakes & Analytics
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From Tables to Relationships: Visualizing Iceberg Data as a Graph
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PuppyGraph engine queries Iceberg tables as graphs using Cypher and Gremlin without ETL
Integrations & Partners
Data Lakes & Analytics
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Inertia Is the Problem: Why Waiting to Modernize Costs More Than Migrating
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Delaying modernization costs more than migrating—60% of finance CTOs admit outdated tech blocks AI innovation
Data Lakes & Analytics
Case Studies & Solutions
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AIStor Adds Support for the S3 Express API
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S3 Express One Zone high-speed API support added to AIStor for low-latency operations
AIStor
Architecture & Design Patterns
Storage & Infrastructure
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The Case for On-Prem Iceberg: Cost, Control, and Performance
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On-prem Iceberg case: Cost control & performance—avoid cloud bills, maintain sovereignty, deliver 2.2 TiB/s throughput
AIStor
Integrations & Partners
Apache Ecosystem
The True Cost of Cloud: How One Cybersecurity Company Found a Better Alternative with MinIO AIStor
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A cybersecurity firm faced soaring cloud costs and performance bottlenecks with AWS S3 as their log data grew to a multi-exabyte scale. They adopted MinIO AIStor for high-performance, S3-compatible object storage, cutting costs and boosting efficiency.
AIStor
Case Studies & Solutions
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Architect’s Guide to Open Table Formats and Object Storage
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Lakehouse architecture guide: Compare Iceberg/Delta/Hudi formats with object storage for AI/analytics workloads
Integrations & Partners
Apache Ecosystem
Architecture & Design Patterns
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The Definitive Guide to Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg and AIStor
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Comprehensive guide to lakehouse architecture combining Iceberg table format with AIStor for analytics
Apache Ecosystem
Data Lakes & Analytics
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Demystifying Amazon S3 Tables: Why AIStor Makes Special Buckets Unnecessary
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AIStor eliminates AWS S3 Tables limitations with uniform performance across all buckets
AIStor
Cloud Infrastructure
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Exness: Managing petabytes of trading data with MinIO
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Exness case study managing petabytes of trading data with on-prem MinIO for cost savings
AI/ML
Case Studies & Solutions
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Repatriating AI Workloads: An On-Prem Answer to Soaring Cloud Costs
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Economic and performance case for repatriating AI workloads from cloud to on-prem
AI/ML
Cloud Infrastructure
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From Storage to AI Insights: Streamlining Data Pipelines with MinIO and Polars
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High-performance data preprocessing with Polars DataFrame library and MinIO integration
Data Lakes & Analytics
AIStor
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Leading the Way: MinIO's Conditional Write Feature for Modern Data Workloads
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Safe concurrent writes using If-Match and If-None-Match HTTP headers for data consistency
Data Lakes & Analytics
AIStor
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PostgreSQL Meets Object Storage: Access External Data in MinIO
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PostgreSQL pg_lakehouse extension queries object storage data as external tables
Integrations & Partners
Data Lakes & Analytics
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Building Modern Data Architectures with Iceberg, Tabular and MinIO
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Modern data architecture with Iceberg & Tabular on MinIO—eliminate vendor lock-in with universal storage platform
Data Lakes & Analytics
Apache Ecosystem
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The Future of AI is Open-Source
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Open-source AI democratization versus proprietary models for enterprise innovation and transparency
Apache Ecosystem
Architecture & Design Patterns
AI/ML