Storage is one of the critical factors for your application's performance. Any software application needs to interact with storage for installation, logging, and accessing files. The optimal solution for your storage will differ based on the following factors:
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Access methods |
Block, file, or object |
| Access patterns | Sequential or random |
| Access frequency | Online (hot), offline (warm), or archival (cold) |
| Update frequency | Write once read many (WORM) or dynamic |
| Access availability | Availability of storage when required |
| Access durability | Reliability of data store to minimize any data loss |
| Access throughput | Input/output operations per second (IOPS) and data read/write per second in MBs. |
These depend upon your data format and scalability needs. You first need to decide whether your data will be stored in block, file, or object storage. These are storage formats that store and present data in a different way. Let's look at this in more detail.
