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Quobyte Features
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With a full set of features designed to make your experience simple while providing the functionality that your business needs, Quobyte offers both an infrastructure and a free, downloadable edition that uniquely solve your enterprise storage problems.

Quobyte Editions

Free Edition

Infrastructure Edition

Price
Price
Capacity
Support
Free forever
150 TB HDD + 30 TB SSD
Community forum
Capacity based pricing
Unlimited
Enterprise 24/7 support via email, phone, zoom
Core Features
Full fault tolerance with automatic failover
Non-disruptive anything
Deploy anywhere®Any x86 server with flash and/or HDD
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
Limits
Max. Volumes
Max. Files
Max. Clients
10
100M
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Protection
Synchronous replication of files and metadata
Erasure coding of files
Recoding of files
Auto file layout
End-to-end checksums
Failure domains
Security
Unified ACLs (NFSv4, POSIX...)
LDAP
Access keys
X.509 certificates
TLS (selective)
End-to-end AES encryption
Multi-Tenancy with self-service
S3 only
Clients and Protocols
Native Linux (POSIX)
Native Windows
Native MacOS
NFS v3 and v4
Object (S3 compatible)
Hadoop / HDFS
TensorFlow plugin
MPI-IO
Multi-Cluster Features
Volume mirroring
Asynchronous geo replication
Bi-directional synchronization
Data Management
Policy based data management
Automatic tiering
Immutable files
File/Object expiration
Quality-of-Service classes
Pools and hardware Isolation
Centralized client configuration management
Management
Webconsole / GUI
JSON REST API
Prometheus exporter
Grafana dashboard
Filesystem Features
Snapshots (user-accesible)
Quotas on tenant, volume, group and user level
Extended attributes
Hardlinks
Scalable range-locks (fcntl)
File and object in one namespace
Integrations
Kubernetes/CSI plugin
OpenStack Cinder/Manila

Quobyte Features in Detail

Core Features

All Quobyte services and data is stored redundantly using synchnronous quorum replication or erasure coding. Failover is fully automatic and does not require virtual IPs, multipath other mechanisms.

Adding servers, removing them, hardware refreshes, rebalancing, data tiering, software updates, hardware maintenance… all of these tasks can be done while the cluster is running and serving data at full speed.

On prem on your own servers, on the public clouds or on Kubernetes. Read more…

Quobyte runs on virtual machines or bare metal instances, with local drives or cloud block storage. Learn more about our recommended cloud instances.

With our multi-cluster support you can easily combine on-prem and cloud-based clusters into a powerful hybrid-cloud storage system.

Data Protection

Synchronous quorum protection ensures data is stored on multiple servers and protects against data loss, unavailability or split-brain situations. Read more…

Erasure coded files offer high performance access at very low space overhead. Read more..

Policy-based recoding of files transforms replicated files to erasure coding or to wider erasure coding schemas, e.g. for archival.

The automatic file layout store small files on flash (with replication) and automatically switches to erasure coding on hard drive as the file grows. This gives you the perfect combination of high performance and price without tiering.

End-to-end cheksums do what NFS doesn’t: Protect your data throught its entire lifetime, while in transit and at rest. Read more…

Security

ACLs in Quobyte are unified, i.e. Quobyte translates automatically between the different ACLs like POSIX, NFSv4 or Windows. You don’t have to manage different ACLs for every platform. Read more…

Quobyte supports LDAP for the management layer, for the file system (client side translation) and for access keys.

Access Keys in Quobyte can be used for S3 access but also for secure multi-user and multi-tenant access on shared machines with Kubernetes, Linux or Hadoop. Read more…

X.509 certificates ensure only authorized users and machines can access the Quobyte storage. Read more…

TLS can be enabled globally or only for specific networks, e.g. for access from outside a cluster. Read more…

End-to-end-encryption ensures that no data leaves the client machine in clear text. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Read more…

Full isolation of tenants with self-service and optional hardware isolation. Read more…

Data Management

Full control over how and where files are stored, immutability, tiering, caching or encryption. Read more

Automatic policy based tiering of files between storage media, pools or clusters. Read more

Admins can configure policies to automatically make files immutable after creation or to prevent deletion forever or for a pre-defined timespan.

Immutable files are an invaluable tool to protect against ransomeware attacks.

Automatically expire (and delete) files and object based on policies or user-configurable metadata.

Quobyte provides several Quality-of-Service classes for IO and metadata operations, as well as fairness between IO and metadata operations within a QoS class.

Devices in Quobyte can be tagged to form pools (which can be overlapping) and to provide full hardware isolation, e.g. for tenants, volumes or users or to fulfil legal requirements like HIPAA or MPAA regulations.

Client configuration such as prefetching, caching, metadata caching are configured through policies and automatically applied on all clients. Changes to policies are picked up by clients within seconds. No need for local configuration on the client machines.

Multi-Cluster Features

Volume mirroring is based on a near-instantaneous mirroring of metadata and data to one or more remote Quobyte clusters for disaster recovery.

Synchronization of Quobyte volumes at regular intervals or triggered on demand, e.g. to hydrate cloud clusters.

Synchronize files in both directions between two Quobyte volumes with last-writer-wins semantics. Offers consistency similar to object storage.

Management

Manage your Quobyte clusters through the intuitive brwoser-based webconsole.

The Quobyte JSON REST API gives you full control over your cluster and makes monitoring and automation a breeze.

All Quobyte services and clients have built-in prometheus exporters. Quobyte also implements the Consul API for automated service and client discovery.

The Quobyte dashboard for Grafana gives you full insight into your Quobyte cluster, the workloads and long-term trends. Read more on grafana.com…

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