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Announcing General Availability of MinIO AIStor Tables

AIStor Tables GA: First built-in Apache Iceberg V3 data store unifying objects & tables for AI/analytics

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Iceberg Views in AIStor Tables

Engine-agnostic Iceberg views enable virtual tables across Spark, Trino, and Dremio

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AIStor Tables: Native Iceberg V3 for On-Premises Object Storage

First object store supporting Iceberg V3 with deletion vectors and native geospatial types

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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

Global telco replaced legacy storage with AIStor lakehouse—scalable, cost-efficient foundation ready for AI insights

Case Studies & Solutions

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AIStor

AI/ML

Data Lakes & Analytics

Apache Iceberg as the Foundation for Enterprise AI Data: Why MinIO Made Tables Native In AIStor

Iceberg as foundation for enterprise AI—Tables native in AIStor unifies structured/unstructured data for agentic AI readiness

AIStor

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AIStor Tables: Technical Deep Dive

Native Iceberg Catalog REST API implementation with warehouse-namespace-table hierarchy

AIStor

AI/ML

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Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

MinIO is Hadoop HDFS's logical successor—faster, cloud-native, S3-compatible with better economics & simplicity

Performance

Data Lakes & Analytics

Case Studies & Solutions

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From Data Swamps to Reliable Data Systems: How Iceberg Brought 40 Years of Database Wisdom to Data Lakes

How Iceberg applies 40 years of database ACID principles to data lake architectures

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Data Lakes & Analytics

The Case for Native Iceberg Catalog APIs and Unified Governance in Object Storage

Embedding native Iceberg catalog APIs directly into object storage for unified governance

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Building Real-time Data Pipelines with MinIO's AIStor

Real-time data pipeline with AIStor—stream processing architecture for low-latency analytics & operational intelligence

Data Lakes & Analytics

AIStor

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Integrations & Partners

Iceberg's Catalog API: The Atomic Pointer Manager Behind Your Iceberg Tables

Iceberg Catalog API explained—atomic pointer manager coordinates metadata, snapshots & multi-engine table access

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Data Lakes & Analytics

The Case for On-Prem Iceberg: Cost, Control, and Performance

On-prem Iceberg case: Cost control & performance—avoid cloud bills, maintain sovereignty, deliver 2.2 TiB/s throughput

AIStor

Integrations & Partners

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Architect’s Guide to Open Table Formats and Object Storage

Lakehouse architecture guide: Compare Iceberg/Delta/Hudi formats with object storage for AI/analytics workloads

Integrations & Partners

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Architecture & Design Patterns

The Definitive Guide to Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg and AIStor

Comprehensive guide to lakehouse architecture combining Iceberg table format with AIStor for analytics

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Data Lakes & Analytics

AI Data Workflows with Kafka and MinIO

Building event-driven architectures with Kafka message queues and MinIO object storage

AI/ML

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Operations

ACID Transactions with Iceberg on AIStor

Iceberg ACID transactions explained—atomic operations, schema evolution & time travel on object storage tables

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Data Lakes & Analytics

Security

Migrating from HDFS to AIStor

Migration strategies and tools for moving from Hadoop HDFS to modern object storage

Data Lakes & Analytics

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Kubernetes & Containers

Cloud Infrastructure

Operations

The Bank of the East - Replacing Hadoop with MinIO and Dremio

Financial institution replacing Hadoop with MinIO and Dremio for analytics

Case Studies & Solutions

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Data Lakes & Analytics

The Bank of the North - A Quick Case Study for HDFS Modernization

Case study on replacing Hadoop HDFS with modern MinIO-based data lakehouse

Case Studies & Solutions

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Building Modern Data Architectures with Iceberg, Tabular and MinIO

Modern data architecture with Iceberg & Tabular on MinIO—eliminate vendor lock-in with universal storage platform

Data Lakes & Analytics

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The Future of AI is Open-Source

Open-source AI democratization versus proprietary models for enterprise innovation and transparency

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Architecture & Design Patterns

AI/ML

LanceDB: Your Trusted Steed in the Joust Against Data Complexity

LanceDB vector database with Lance columnar format for fast ML embeddings and semantic search

AI/ML

Data Lakes & Analytics

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Architecture & Design Patterns

A Guide to Decoupled Storage with StarRocks and MinIO

StarRocks OLAP database with decoupled compute-storage architecture using MinIO

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Architecture & Design Patterns

Kubernetes & Containers

Cloud Infrastructure

Data Lakes & Analytics

Data Lake Mysteries Unveiled: Nessie, Dremio, and MinIO Make Waves

GraphRAG architecture with Nessie catalog, Dremio SQL, and Iceberg for data lakehouses

Integrations & Partners

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Architecture & Design Patterns

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