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Welcome to the Scality Droplet wiki!

Scality Droplet is a high perfomance Cloud Storage client library which provides a set of high-level features:

Today (v0.5 beta):

• Multi-profile system
• Virtual directories with true absolute and relative path support
• Metadata management
• Server side copy
• On-the-fly encryption/decryption and buffered I/O
• Manages storage pricing

Supported backends:

• S3 (Simple Storage Service)
• CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) – Partial support (switch to branch cdmi_integration)

Supported architectures:

• Linux x86_32 and 64 bits architectures
• MacOS/X

Roadmap:

• Multiple backends: S3, CDMI, etc
• Read cache for files and virtual directories
• On-the-fly compression/uncompression
• Automatic splitting of big files
• Multipart upload
• Support for Solaris, MacOS/X, BSD, etc
• Support for different languages
• File hierarchy sync
• Range support for both plaintext and encrypted files (it is why we use CFB mode)

Menu:

Getting started (basic configuration and first commands)
configuration file (profile)
Pricing files syntax (if pricing is required)
dplsh (the Droplet shell)
API overview (C API)
A C example

Please report bugs and comments to droplet at scality.com.