<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
High	O
Performance	O
Object	B-Application
Storage	I-Application
released	O
under	O
GNU	O
Affero	O
General	O
Public	O
License	O
v3.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
API	B-Application
compatible	O
with	O
the	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
cloud	O
storage	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
's	O
main	O
developer	O
is	O
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Inc	O
,	O
a	O
Silicon	O
Valleybased	O
technology	O
startup	O
founded	O
by	O
Anand	O
Babu	O
Periasamy	O
,	O
Garima	O
Kapoor	O
,	O
and	O
Harshavardhana	O
in	O
November	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
has	O
published	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
benchmarks	O
to	O
disclose	O
both	O
its	O
own	O
performance	O
and	O
the	O
performance	O
of	O
an	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
in	O
general	O
,	O
those	O
include	O
comparisons	O
to	O
an	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
for	O
Trino	B-Language
,	O
Presto	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Spark	B-Language
as	O
well	O
as	O
throughput	O
results	O
for	O
the	O
S3Benchmark	O
on	O
HDD	B-Device
and	O
NVMe	B-Application
drives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
April	O
23	O
2021	O
MinIO	B-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
submitted	O
a	O
change	O
that	O
re-licensed	O
the	O
project	O
from	O
its	O
previous	O
Apache	O
V2	O
to	O
GNU	O
Affero	O
Public	O
License	O
Version	O
3	O
(	O
AGPLv3	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
storage	O
stack	O
has	O
three	O
major	O
components	O
:	O
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Server	O
,	O
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Client	O
(	O
a.k.a.	O
</s>
<s>
mc	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
a	O
command-line	O
client	O
for	O
the	O
object	O
and	O
file	O
management	O
with	O
any	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
compatible	O
servers	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Client	O
SDK	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
application	O
developers	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
any	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
compatible	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
cloud	O
storage	O
server	O
is	O
designed	O
to	O
be	O
minimal	O
and	O
scalable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
light	O
enough	O
to	O
be	O
bundled	O
along	O
with	O
the	O
application	O
stack	O
,	O
similar	O
to	O
NodeJS	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Redis	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
is	O
optimised	O
for	O
large	O
enterprise	O
deployments	O
,	O
including	O
features	O
like	O
erasure	O
coding	O
,	O
bitrot	O
protection	O
,	O
encryption/WORM	O
,	O
identity	O
management	O
,	O
continuous	O
replication	B-Architecture
,	O
global	O
federation	O
,	O
and	O
multi-cloud	O
deployments	O
via	O
gateway	O
mode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
server	O
is	O
hardware	O
agnostic	B-General_Concept
,	O
thus	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
installed	O
both	O
on	O
physical	O
and	O
virtual	O
machines	O
or	O
launched	O
as	O
Docker	B-Language
containers	O
and	O
deployed	O
on	O
container	O
orchestration	O
platforms	O
like	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Client	O
provides	O
an	O
alternative	O
to	O
the	O
standard	O
UNIX	O
commands	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
ls	B-Application
,	O
cat	B-Device
,	O
cp	B-Application
,	O
mirror	O
,	O
diff	B-Application
,	O
etc	O
)	O
adding	O
support	O
for	O
an	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
compatible	O
cloud	O
storage	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
works	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
Mac	B-Application
and	O
Windows	B-Application
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MinIO	B-General_Concept
Client	O
SDK	O
provides	O
an	O
API	B-Application
to	O
access	O
any	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
compatible	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	O
bindings	O
are	O
available	O
for	O
Go	B-Application
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
Haskell	B-Language
,	O
and	O
languages	O
hosted	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
the	O
.NET	B-Application
Framework	I-Application
.	O
</s>
