alt Hacker News> I saw nothing above what Apache Spark+Hadoop with _consistent_ object stores already offers on Amazon (S3), Google Cloud (GCS), and or Microsoft (Azure Storage, ADLS Gen2)
it was very simple to setup, and even if you just leased a bunch of servers off say OVH, far FAR cheaper to run your own than paying any of the big cloud providers.
It also had pretty low requirements, ceph can do all that but setup is more complex and RAM requirements far, far higher
MinIO still makes no sense, as Ceph is fundamentally already RADOS at its core (fully compatible with S3 API.)
For a proper Ceph setup, even the 45drives budget configuration is still not "hobby" grade.
I will have to dive into the MinIO manual at some point, as the value proposition still seems like a mystery. Cheers =3