Talk:Object storage

November 2013

"Object storage was first proposed at Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Lab "

Baloney. Object stores were a universal part of the earliest object oriented environments. It was one of the reasons it was so difficult to use early versions of things like Smalltalk for general programming, because the system lived within its object store, and that was normally a gigantic monolithic snapshot file within the underlying OS's file system. Later there were generalized versions, like Apple's Bento (no, not Bento (database)) and similar concepts.

The description here is not of object storage, but object file systems, which are similar but different. The article either needs to clearly state that, perhaps with a renaming, or alternately expand the description/history to illustrate the development of these concepts. I'm open to suggestions as to which of these seems more appropriate.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:02, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Too many links

There are way too many duplicate vendor company links in here. So much so it seems promotional... A. Ward (talk) 05:41, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

"Captive" object storage?

What does "Captive" object storage mean, and are there any references to the term? Isn't Facebook's Haystack rather just a proprietary object store? --Raidex.sym (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Response: Maybe merge this with "cloud" storage. "Captive object storage" certainly isn't a standard or defined term, AFAIK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7CF3:FA00:A83D:9EB4:2852:98B0 (talk) 02:35, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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Object-based storage devices timeline

"Object storage at the protocol and device layer was proposed 20 years ago[ambiguous] and approved for the SCSI command set nearly 10 years ago[ambiguous]"

This line was added on 03. Nov 2013, so while "nearly 10 years ago" most likely refers to the source's mention of July 2004 ratification, it is unclear what proposal is meant by "proposed 20 years ago", as 20 years before 2013 would put it before the 1995 research by Garth Gibson, does anyone have an idea where this comes from?

2A06:93C2:9F:1:25B:C457:A364:BD83 (talk) 09:27, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

"Differences between..." significantly wrong

The "Differences between key-value and object stores" section makes generalizations that are incorrect. Fit example, many key value stores are eventually consistent. 213.55.243.19 (talk) 05:24, 27 January 2023 (UTC)