Two MinIO platforms, same root cause: used as a NoSQL store. Field notes on LIST IOPS, XFS directory limits, scanner & heal SLAs, the erasure-coding storage-efficiency inversion on small objects, and why Apache Cassandra (or Ceph) is the right answer on-prem in 2026.
Beware the AGPL! you may end with a product orphan from its S3 storage… MinIO has long been a popular open-source S3-compatible storage solution, but their strategy has shifted dramatically—especially since the release of their new AIstor product, now positioned as their main enterprise S3 offering. Over the past year, Read more
MinIO has just announced that the open source project is now in maintenance-only mode: no new features, no regular PR review, only best-effort community support.If your data lake, AI workloads or internal S3-compatible storage rely on MinIO, this is no longer a theoretical risk – it’s an operational one. Over Read more