On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:29 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > 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').
My votes would be for buckets and blobs. David
