Data Lakes & Analytics

MinIO Blog Posts

The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming the AI Storage Bottleneck in 2026

Storage, not models or compute, is now AI's biggest bottleneck. The fix is an architectural one, not a bigger GPU.

Storage & Infrastructure

AIStor

Architecture & Design Patterns

Cloud Infrastructure

Data Lakes & Analytics

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