Features

Wise Cluster O³ has a lot of different features already built into it. So that it’s easier to add more value to your data, without relying on dozens of different systems.

In addition to some well known features, it offers some unique ones relating to your stored objects that might help in reaching your goals faster and easier. While there are more features than what’s listed here, none of them are as important as the problems they help solve. Wise Cluster always puts solutions first, features second.

Erasure coding

The default mode of redundancy in Wise Cluster O³ is erasure coding. It increases the usable storage space with the same reliability guarantees.

Multi-site deployment

From keeping data geographically close to your users, to remote disaster recovery deployments, or just adding new deployments to existing ones, Wise Cluster O³ supports a wide range of use cases involving multiple clusters under the same management.

Storage classes

Wise Cluster O³ supports different storage classes to handle varying levels of reliability guarantees. Classes are S3 compatible and it’s also possible to automatically move data between them using transition rules, for example in data archival scenarios.

Encryption

Wise Cluster O³ can encrypt objects before storing them to the physical drives, so that you can be sure that they’re totally inaccessible without your explicit permission, even after replacing the drives.

Compression

Wise Cluster O³ can compress objects on the fly before storing them using different algorithms. So it may be possible to store even more data depending on the data type.

Object versioning

Wise Cluster O³ can keep versions of all objects in the bucket, to be able to retrieve older versions of the same data, or prevent accidental deletion.

Object locking

Buckets can be configured for object locking to support write-once-read-many scenarios. It’s possible to write-protect objects for a specified amount of time where data is being stored with compliance regulations.

Object search

Metadata indexing or object search capabilities are generally sold separately or need to be handled externally. Wise Cluster O³ automatically stores your objects’ metadata in a built-in distributed search index. And you can search for your objects directly over the web interface.

Load balancing

Wise Cluster O³ contains open-source load balancers for all of the required services. These of course contain the main data transfer endpoints. So you don’t have to use costly external load balancers.

Service redundancy

All the services in Wise Cluster O³ are designed and deployed in a fault tolerant, self-healing way. We place several redundancies for each of the components so that no one can be a single point of failure.