Curious about thoughts on Garage as an alternative to Minio. It has been in development since 2020. Here is the project git. Documentation looks nice.
Curious what others think of it as a project that has been around for a few years and seems like a solid, open source contender now that Minio has removed most of their community edition functionality.
Object storage is indeed a specialized filesystem in a trenchcoat.
Object storage is typically (but not always) associated with non-hierarchical key-value lookups, as opposed to the directory tree pattern most file systems use. Object storage systems are also typically (but not always) designed with sharding and distribution in mind.