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Welcome to the Droplet, a Swiss army knife for cloud storage!

Scality Droplet is a high perfomance client library that provides an extensive set of high-level features for cloud storage administration.

Current release (v0.5 beta):

• Multiprofile system
• Objects
• Containers
• System metadata: ACL, atime, mtime …
• User metadata
• REST access
• ID based access
• VFS style access
• Server-side copy
• On-the-fly encryption/decryption and buffered I/O
• Storage price management
• Thread safe
• Connection pooling

Supported backends:

• Droplet is a CDMI C client library (Cloud Data Management Interface)
• Droplet is a S3 C client library (Simple Storage Service)
• Droplet is a SRWS C client library (Scality Simple Rest Web Service)
• Droplet is a Posix C client library (Standard File System)
• Droplet is a Swift C client library (OpenStack)

Supported architectures:

• Linux x86_32 and 64 bit architectures
• MacOS/X

Roadmap:

• Additional backend support
• Read cache for files and virtual directories
• On-the-fly compression/uncompression
• Automatic splitting of big files
• Multipart upload
• Support for Solaris, MacOS/X, BSD, etc
• Support for different languages
• File hierarchy sync
• Range support for both plain text and encrypted files (it is why we use CFB mode)

Menu:

• Compiling External libs required
• Getting Started (basic configuration and first commands)
• Configuration File (profile)
• Pricing Files Syntax (if pricing is required)
• Droplet Shell (https://github.com/scality/Droplet-sh/wiki)
• C API (old doc: API Overview)
• C Examples
• Using Droplet for Email Servers

Please report bugs and comments to droplet at scality.com or join us on #droplet at irc.freenode.net