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Welcome to the Droplet, an army-knife for Cloud storage!

Scality Droplet is a high perfomance Cloud Storage client library that provides a set of high-level features:

Today (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 pricing management

Supported backends:

• S3 (Simple Storage Service)
• CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface)
• SRWS (Simple Rest Web Service)
• SREST (Scality Rest Service)

Supported architectures:

• Linux x86_32 and 64 bit architectures
• MacOS/X

Roadmap:

• Multiple backends: S3, CDMI, etc
• 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:

• 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)
• API overview (C API)
• C examples

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