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Made for redundancy
Each chunk of data is replicated in 3 zones
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Zone (multiple servers)
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Chunks of data
Our Goals
We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:
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Self-contained
We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions
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Fast to deploy, safe to operate
We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software
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Deploy everywhere on every machine
We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
so we made software that run over the Internet across multiple datacenters -
Highly resilient
to network failures, network latency, disk failures, sysadmin failures
Keeping requirements low
We worked hard to keep requirements as low as possible:
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Any x86_64 CPU from the last 10 years, ARMv7 or ARMv8
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CPU
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1 GB
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RAM
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At least 16 GB
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Disk space
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200 ms or less, 50 Mbps or more
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Network
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Build a cluster with whatever second-hand machines are available
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Heterogeneous hardware
Data resiliency for everyone
We built Garage to suit your existing infrastructure:
Garage implements the Amazon S3 API
and thus is already compatible with many applications.
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
Garage leverages insights from recent research in distributed systems:
- Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store by DeCandia et al.
- Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types by Shapiro et al.
- Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer by Eisenbud et al.
Sponsors and funding
Garage has received funding from NGI POINTER (3 full-time employees for one year, in 2021-2022), and from NLnet / NGI0 Entrust (1 full-time employee for one year, in 2023-2024).
If you want to participate in funding Garage development, either through donation or support contract, please get in touch with us.
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2021 research and innovation programme within the framework of the NGI-POINTER Project funded under grant agreement N° 871528.
This project has received funding from the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.