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MinIO Blog Posts

Unlocking On-Premises Data for Databricks: Secure, Zero-Copy Sharing with AIStor Table Sharing

Delta Sharing + AIStor enables zero-copy access to on-prem data from Databricks without duplication

AIStor

Architecture & Design Patterns

Data Lakes & Analytics

Integrations & Partners

Security

AIStor Table Sharing Connects Databricks Directly to On-Premises Data in AIStor

Table Sharing connects Databricks directly to on-prem AIStor data via Delta Sharing without copying/syncing

AIStor

Integrations & Partners

Data Lakes & Analytics

Architecture & Design Patterns

Understanding the Difference Between Business Catalogs and Iceberg REST Catalogs

Technical vs platform vs business catalogs—enterprises need all three layers working together for AI/analytics

Data Lakes & Analytics

The Case for Embedding Delta Sharing into Object Storage

Embedding Delta Sharing protocol into object storage for secure data sharing

Data Lakes & Analytics

How to Build AI-Ready Government Agencies: A Data Modernization Foundation

Government AI readiness starts with unified data infrastructure—not algorithms—practical modernization guide

Data Lakes & Analytics

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

Apache Ecosystem

AIStor

AI/ML

Data Lakes & Analytics

Making All Data Discoverable: Delta Sharing with MinIO AIStor and Databricks

Making data discoverable with Databricks—Delta Sharing + AIStor enables direct access to on-prem data without duplication

Data Lakes & Analytics

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

Apache Ecosystem

Object Storage Optimized Databases: Trends & Industry Leaders

Databases optimized for object storage using S3 API for disaggregated compute-storage architecture

Data Lakes & Analytics

Architecture & Design Patterns

Storage & Infrastructure

Integrations & Partners

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

Apache Ecosystem

Data Lakes & Analytics

Data Lakehouse Security: Supporting Scalable Analytics and AI Workloads

Security best practices for data lakehouses supporting enterprise analytics and AI workloads

Security

Data Lakes & Analytics

From Tables to Relationships: Visualizing Iceberg Data as a Graph

PuppyGraph engine queries Iceberg tables as graphs using Cypher and Gremlin without ETL

Integrations & Partners

Data Lakes & Analytics

AI ML Architecture: Modern Datalake Reference Guide

AI/ML datalake reference architecture—design high-performance infrastructure for training, inference & analytics at scale

AI/ML

Data Lakes & Analytics

Architecture & Design Patterns

The Small Files Problem: Solutions for Big Data

Inline metadata and erasure coding solve small file performance challenges at scale

Architecture & Design Patterns

Data Lakes & Analytics

Performance

Inertia Is the Problem: Why Waiting to Modernize Costs More Than Migrating

Delaying modernization costs more than migrating—60% of finance CTOs admit outdated tech blocks AI innovation

Data Lakes & Analytics

Case Studies & Solutions

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

Apache Ecosystem

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

Apache Ecosystem

Data Lakes & Analytics

The Definitive Guide to Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg and AIStor

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

Apache Ecosystem

Data Lakes & Analytics

From Storage to AI Insights: Streamlining Data Pipelines with MinIO and Polars

High-performance data preprocessing with Polars DataFrame library and MinIO integration

Data Lakes & Analytics

AIStor

ACID Transactions with Iceberg on AIStor

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

Apache Ecosystem

Data Lakes & Analytics

Security

Leading the Way: MinIO's Conditional Write Feature for Modern Data Workloads

Safe concurrent writes using If-Match and If-None-Match HTTP headers for data consistency

Data Lakes & Analytics

AIStor

Migrating from HDFS to AIStor

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

Data Lakes & Analytics

Apache Ecosystem

Kubernetes & Containers

Cloud Infrastructure

Operations

Databases on Object Storage - the New Normal

Databases on object storage—Druid, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Teradata leverage MinIO for disaggregated scale & performance

Performance

Architecture & Design Patterns

Data Lakes & Analytics

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

Financial institution replacing Hadoop with MinIO and Dremio for analytics

Case Studies & Solutions

Apache Ecosystem

Data Lakes & Analytics