On 08/26/2010 05:49 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: > 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.
Ditto. Anybody dealing with this API is probably familiar with the S3 "bucket" terminology and will understand the mapping to other systems. "Blob" isn't part of that terminology but is pretty intuitive while "object" is too laden with other associations.
