MinIO Blog

Large numbers of small files present big challenges for application performance.

Creating a framework for high-performance, cloud-native object storage is mission-critical in the modern enterprise. Take a look at The Buyer’s Guide to Software Defined #ObjectStorage to understand the key capabilities.

Choosing the right open table format—Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi—can make or break your data lakehouse. This guide breaks down their strengths, how they integrate with object storage, and which one is best for AI, analytics, and real-time workloads.

Deep dive into AIStor mindset on how we do and recommend updates and restarts with AIStor.

In this blog, we will demonstrate how to use MinIO to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG) based chat application using commodity hardware.

Unleash data collaboration and quality with Nessie! Learn to manage branches, commits, and merges effortlessly. This guide walks you through deploying Dremio, MinIO, and Nessie, transforming your data engineering with collaborative precision. Dive in to revolutionize your workflows!

In this post let's take a look at how to set up multiple LXMIN servers backing up to a multi-node multi-drive MinIO cluster.

This is your symphony for data excellence. Explore the components of this modern data stack, including storage, data integration, transformation, data observability, data discovery, data visualization, data analytics, and machine learning.

Build a streaming Change Data Capture (CDC) pipeline with Redpanda and MinIO into Snowflake. This solution simplifies data migration and analytics, with Redpanda offering scalability, MinIO as efficient storage, and Snowflake as a cloud-native analytics engine.

In this post we’ll talk about Erasure Coding and Erasure Sets, and then dive deeper into how to use the Erasure Code Calculator when designing deployments to make the most out of MinIO by opting for the right hardware configuration setup from the get go.

You must have heard of different data formats like Parquet, ORC, Avro, Arrow, Protobuf, Thrift and MessagePack. What are they and how to choose the right one?

This post focuses on how Iceberg and MinIO complement each other and how various analytic frameworks (Spark, Flink, Trino, Dremio, and Snowflake) can leverage the two.

Protecting blocks is not the same as protecting objects. Learn where block-level RAID falls short compared to erasure coding in distributed object storage.