According to Scality chief marketing officer (CMO) Paul Speciale, the launch is driven by customer demand for PB-scale data lake aggregation with rapid input/output performance for things like data cleansing, security, immutable backups and extreme metadata handling. "Ring XP is a special configuration of Ring for small object data found in AI processing," he said.
Core to the performance promised by Ring XP is a stripped-down S3 connector and all-NVMe flash storage. At one end of the scale is full-fat S3 API connectivity. This comes with storage functionality such as versioning, replication, and other management features. This is what you get with Scality Ring (i.e. not XP) and Amazon S3, where access times are measured in the 10ms-50ms range.
It is possible, however, to access versions of S3 that dispense with that advanced functionality and which provide higher levels of performance. AWS, for example, offers S3 Express Zone One, in which reduced features and a single availability zone provide latency of between 1ms and 9ms. Ring XP goes further, and promises less than 500µs for gets and less than 700µs for writes.
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