CEPH

About CEPH

A unified, distributed storage system providing object, block, and file storage in a single platform. CEPH is designed for excellent performance, reliability, and scalability, widely used in cloud infrastructure and data center environments.

Key Features

• 1Distributed storage system providing object, block, and file storage in one platform
• 2Self-healing and self-managing with no single point of failure
• 3RADOS Gateway (RGW) provides S3 and Swift API compatibility
• 4CephFS for POSIX-compliant distributed file system access
• 5Scales from terabytes to exabytes by adding storage nodes

How Python Data Engineers Use CEPH

Python data engineers in on-premise or private cloud environments use Ceph's S3-compatible RADOS Gateway as a drop-in replacement for AWS S3 — boto3 and awswrangler work unchanged by pointing them at the Ceph endpoint URL. CephFS is mounted as a shared file system that multiple Python pipeline worker nodes read from and write to simultaneously.