Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of UseCases


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2007-07-15T21:47:30Z (17 years ago)
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  • UseCases

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    1 There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:
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    3 (This Wiki page was originally inspired by [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html this discussion on the tahoe-dev list])
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    5  * ''friendnet'': a group of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
    6  * ''sysadmin'': a sysadmin wants to backup data onto a few of his own server
    7  * ''hivecache'': a sysadmin wants to backup data onto hundreds of employee workstations
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    9 [[Image(http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/attachment/wiki/Doc/usecases.jpg?format=raw)]]
     1There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe.  We're not necessarily committed to providing all of these use cases -- these are just possibilities.
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    124||__name__||__number of nodes__||__administrative domains__||__node capacity__||__node availability__||__churn__||
    13 ||''friendnet''||2-10||many trusted domains||mixed||it depends on the friends...||low||
    14 ||''sysadmin''||2-10||one domain||uniform||high||low||
     5||''friendnet''||2-10||many domains, but all trusted||mixed||mixed||low||
     6||''proprietary grid''||2-30||one domain||uniform||high||low||
    157||''hivecache''||10-1000||one domain, but not as well controlled||somewhat uniform||high||low||
     8||''Allmydata plus customers''||10-10,000||many||mixed||mixed||medium||
     9||''global grid''||any||many||mixed||mixed||high||
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     11 * ''friendnet'': a group of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
     12 * ''proprietary grid'': a sysadmin, or Allmydata Inc. wants to backup data onto a set of servers
     13 * ''hivecache'': a sysadmin wants to backup data onto hundreds of employee workstations
     14 * ''Allmydata plus customers'': Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the customer's computers
     15 * ''global grid'': a large, diverse ecosystem of people and organizations who want a storage grid with extremely high reliability and availability
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    18 more to come...
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    20 Others not yet entered into the table:
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    22  * Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers
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    24  * Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the
    25 customer's computers
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    27  * a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability