On 26/08/10 08:13 -0400, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
Hey Marios,
I'm for keeping the word "blob". Every dev already knows what that is -- it's
used in databases, git, et cetera.
However, I don't like "container" as much. If I just saw the two words without a context,
I would perhaps consider them synonyms (blob == "container for bits").
My suggestion is "collection", if you can afford such a general name. In my
mind it's much clearer that blobs form (or belong to) collections rather than containers
or buckets.
I don't want to 'troll' or something, but I'm not very sure about
term 'collection', because we already using it in API.
So to avoid confusion in terms, I'm voting for 'bucket' or 'directory'.
-- Michal
Thomas
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Subject: 'A Blob by any other name'...
Hi, I have so far been using the nouns 'Container' and 'Blob' for the
entities in our (developing) cloud storage API. It was always the
intention to change these at some point so I thought it would be a good
idea to get some input from the wider group. A 'blob' is a uniquely
named collection of data, stored as a single entity (in S3/CloudFiles
'Object'). A 'container' is a uniquely named grouping of blobs (in S3
'Bucket' and CloudFiles 'Container').
So, any ideas about what we should be calling these 'things'? Do we need
to change the current names at all?
marios
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