AnyShare7, a product of iShu, supports cluster management of two built-in object storage solutions: Swift and Ceph. However, there are significant differences between the two in terms of object storage services.
Swift was developed for the cloud and is cloud-native, so its main access method is through RESTful API. Applications directly interface with Swift, bypassing the operating system. This approach is very convenient when used in a cloud environment, but it becomes more complicated when accessing Swift storage outside the cloud. Swift can sacrifice some consistency to improve read speed (consistency is achieved through background synchronization), making it more suitable for scenarios with frequent read and write operations.
Ceph provides multiple ways to access object storage, making it feel more versatile and scalable compared to Swift. However, Ceph adopts a strong consistency design, specifically Write-All-Read-One, which means that all replicas must be fully written before a write operation is considered successful. Therefore, Ceph is more suitable for scenarios with more reads and fewer writes.