Edge Storage Research

[pdgetrf]

Investigation on the existing open-source distributed storage projects, e.g.

• Anna
• OrbitDB
• EdgeFS
• Azure Cosmos DB, see description in this paper
• Other?

To-do:

• Compare the use cases these projects target
• Compare the available features of these projects
• Compare the underlying technology of these projects
• Brainstorm a full list of possible features for Edge Storage
• Brainstorm a full list of possible use cases for Edge Storage

The end goal of this task is to identify potential edge storage features for edge.

Time:
Target by 1/7

[pdgetrf]

added "end goal" to the description

[kxu1985]

Scope statement:
There are two types of CRDT in geo-distributed storage:
(1) Application-level CRDT: embed CRDT operations to applications
(2) Storage-level CRDT: CRDT is a consensus component of the storage solution.
What I am focusing here is Option (2).

Progress:
[Done] IPFS
[Done] OrbitDB
[Done] EdgeFS
[Pending] AntidoteDB
[Pending] Riak