Updated Filer as a Key Large Value Store (markdown)

Chris Lu 2021-01-13 12:11:53 -08:00
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## How to do it?
There are two tricks:
* Configure for [[Super Large Directories]]. It will avoid the additional work to maintain the file list in the large folder.
* Optionally configure to store small values in filer store. E.g., `weed filer -saveToFilerLimit=1024` will store values less than 1KB to filer store itself. Accessing these entries are basically no difference than accessing the underlying key-value stores directly.
* Usually the entries are in one folder. You can configure for [[Super Large Directories]]. It will avoid the additional work to maintain the file list in the large folder.
* Optionally configure to store small values in filer store. E.g., `weed filer -saveToFilerLimit=1024` will store values less than 1KB to filer store itself. Accessing these small entries are basically no difference than accessing the underlying key-value stores directly.
## AWS S3 is a poor key-value store