Garage

Garage is a lightweight geo-distributed data store that implements the Amazon S3 object storage protocol. Garage is meant primarily for self-hosting at home on second-hand commodity hardware, meaning it has to tolerate a wide variety of failure scenarios such as power cuts, Internet disconnections, and machine crashes or slow response times. It also has to be easy to deploy and maintain, so that hobbyists and small organizations can use it without a hassle. Garage focuses on allowing users to build geo-distributed clusters, with nodes connected through consumer-grade Wide Area Network (Internet) connections. Garage makes this possible by tolerating relatively high latency between nodes thanks to an innovative design based on the principles of the Dynamo database and that makes heavy use of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). Garage is written in Rust, with a strong emphasis on stability and robustness. The funding from NLnet will allow development of Garage to continue, tackling in particular the following two aspects: improving compatibility with the S3 protocol and guaranteeing the stability and soundness of the core of Garage's storage engine.