kitten🐱

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About kitten

Kitten is a distributed file system optimized for small files storage，inspired by Facebook‘s Haystack。

Features

• High throughput & Low latency for millions of files
• Fault-tolerant, store replicates files on different racks
• Cost-effective
• Simple

Quick Start

Find more detail design in docs folder.

Roadmap

Name	Issue	Description
Kitten's basic component	#1	Implement basic component including Store, Proxy, Directory(WIP), Cache
Introduce Etcd	#2	Introduce Etcd for distributed management.
Expose easy APIs	#3	Find an elegantly way to expose APIs.
Support S3 API	#4	As S3 APIs are the de facto standards for OSS， support S3 style APIs.
Implement erasure code	#5	Split data into two groups(hot/warm), use erasure code to store warm data.

Acknowledgments

Inspired by:

bfs distributed file system(small file storage) writen in golang.

seaweedfs SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files!

Thanks again for JetBrains' Sponsorship!