Question
DO Spaces questions
- Posted on February 9, 2025
- Space Object Storage
Asked by Richard van Breugel
Hi,
I’m thinking about using Spaces but have some questions about storage features. Could you please provide information on the following:
- Versioning Storage Efficiency: For a 1MB file with 5 versions, does it consume 5MB or use a more efficient method?
- Deduplication: Is data deduplication implemented for versioned objects? If so, how?
- Version Limits: Are there limits on the number of versions per object or total versioning storage?
- Immutable Storage: Do you offer immutable storage options for protection against ransomware?
- Compliance Storage: What compliance storage options are available, and how do they differ from standard storage?
- Optimization Techniques: What other optimization techniques (e.g., delta storage, compression) are used for versioned objects?
Thank you for your assistance. I look forward to your response.
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Hey Richard,
What I could suggest here is, you could reach out to the DigitalOcean Support team who should be able to confirm some of the internals of the Spaces storage and the compliance questions.
But in general, from what is available in the docs, regarding the rest of the questions:
Regarding versioning: As far as I am aware, each version of a file is stored separately, so a 1MB file with 5 versions will consume 5MB.
Deduplication: As of now, I believe that Spaces does not implement deduplication at the storage layer for versioned objects. Each version is treated as a full independent object, just like AWS S3.
Version limits: From the docs:
Optimization techniques: I would recommend going over the Spaces best practices docs here.
If you have any critical compliance or security needs, I’d definitely recommend reaching out to DigitalOcean support for more details.
- Bobby