NOTE: Hummingbird is no longer under active development.
Hummingbird is a scalable, performant distributed object storage system written in Go that is also a drop in replacement for OpenStack Swift with minimal migration. The goal is to keep the same protocols and on-disk layout while dramatically improving performance.
Development, deployment and administration documentation can be found here
The following tests were run on 5 nodes with 128GB of RAM, 10 960GB SSD, and 45 10T drives each and 10Gb networking. The systems were configured to use an EC scheme of 4 data and 2 parity shards. Each run was for 1,000,000 objects at 250 concurency through a single nectar client.
| 4 KB Results | Hummingbird | Ceph | Swift |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUT/sec | 10395 | 3525 | 890 |
| GET/sec | 16207 | 8576 | 4208 |
| DELETE/sec | 9225 | 5440 | 656 |
| 1MB Results | Hummingbird | Ceph | Swift |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUT/sec | 820 | 778 | 477 |
| GET/sec | 818 | 619 | 602 |
| DELETE/sec | 9434 | 6211 | 512 |