SeaweedFS Blog

AI & ML Benchmark

S3 over RDMA Is 5× Faster Than HTTP

Compare S3 reads over RDMA and HTTP with measured throughput and byte-for-byte verification.

Oct 26, 2026 6 min read

Analytics Walkthrough

One Table Bucket, Many Engines: DuckDB and Trino via databow

Run the same SQL against one table bucket using Trino and DuckDB, with measured timings.

Oct 18, 2026 8 min read

AI & ML Deep dive

Seaweed KVCache: A Shared LMCache L2 That Outlives Your Inference Fleet

Give inference fleets a shared, persistent LMCache L2 with direct RDMA access and restart guarantees.

Sep 4, 2026 11 min read

Analytics Guide

Building a Data Warehouse on SeaweedFS: Setup Best Practices

Build an analytics warehouse with storage tiers, erasure coding, stateless gateways, and monitoring.

Sep 1, 2026 15 min read

Storage Walkthrough

Tiered Table Buckets: Metadata on SSD, Data Aged into Erasure Coding

Keep hot table metadata on SSD while aging cold data into erasure coding and cloud storage.

Aug 31, 2026 11 min read

Protection Walkthrough

Move Data to Another SeaweedFS Cluster from the Admin UI

Configure and watch continuous replication between two real SeaweedFS clusters from the Admin UI.

Aug 26, 2026 4 min read

Integrations Walkthrough

Git Repositories in an S3 Bucket: Running walgit on SeaweedFS

Host Git repositories with an S3 bucket as durable storage, then add a local cache in front of cloud S3.

Aug 25, 2026 9 min read

Analytics Walkthrough

Analyze with Iceberg, Serve with Lance: a Two-Format Lakehouse on SeaweedFS

Combine Iceberg analytics and Lance vector serving in one object store, joined through DuckDB.

Aug 21, 2026 8 min read

Analytics Walkthrough

Vector Search on SeaweedFS Table Buckets with LanceDB

Write embeddings, build an index, and run vector searches with every file stored in SeaweedFS.

Aug 20, 2026 7 min read

Analytics Walkthrough

Running ClickHouse on SeaweedFS Table Buckets

Read and write Iceberg tables from ClickHouse through the built-in SeaweedFS REST catalog.

Aug 9, 2026 8 min read

Analytics Walkthrough

Querying SeaweedFS Table Buckets with DuckDB

Create a table bucket, load data, and query it directly from DuckDB without an external catalog service.

Jul 27, 2026 7 min read

Storage Deep dive

Conditional Writes Without a Compare-and-Swap Store

How SeaweedFS makes S3 conditional writes atomic across gateways and different metadata backends.

Jul 16, 2026 9 min read

Storage Deep dive

Sealing Directories You Still Write To

Keep most of the metadata savings of sealed directories while accepting occasional writes and updates.

Jul 15, 2026 9 min read

Integrations Walkthrough

From Empty Server to Kernel-Mounted SeaweedFS, Step by Step

Install the SeaweedFS kernel filesystem on Debian, mount it, run real applications, and export it over NFS.

Jul 12, 2026 10 min read

Protection Deep dive

Undo for Your Storage: Data Recovery and Point-in-Time Recovery

Restore deleted files or rewind a subtree to an earlier point in time, with a preview before recovery.

Jul 11, 2026 7 min read

Storage Deep dive

Sealed Directories: 18–58× Less Metadata for Cold Data

Pack cold directory metadata into compressed segments while keeping every file readable in place.

Jul 10, 2026 11 min read