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S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

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S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

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PhilippGille·Feb 13, 2026

They point to AIStor as alternative. Other alternatives: https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs https://github.com/supabase/storage https://github.com/scality/cloudserver https://github.com/ceph/ceph Among others

In MinIO repository is no longer maintained

kiwicopple·Apr 19, 2024

self-hosting docs are here: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker And a 5-min demo video with Digital Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqiQKRKsfZE&embeds_referring... Anyone who is familiar with basic server management skills will have no problem self-hosting. every tool in the supabase stack[0] is a docker image and works in isolation. If you just want to use this Storage Engine, it's on docker-hub (supabase/storage-api). Example with MinIO: https://github.com/supabase/storage/blob/master/docker-compo... [0] architecture: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...

In Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol

devjume·Apr 19, 2024

This is great news. Now I can utilize any CDN provider that supports S3. Like bunny.net [1] which has image optimization, just like Supabase does but with better pricing and features. I have been developing with Supabase past two months. I would say there are still some rough corners in general and some basic features missing. Example Supabase storage has no direct support for metadata [2][3]. Overall I like the launch week and development they are doing. But more attention to basic features and little details would be needed because implementing workarounds for basic stuff is not ideal. [1] https://bunny.net/ [2] https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/5479 [3] https://github.com/supabase/storage/issues/439

In Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol

kiwicopple·Apr 19, 2024

It's more of a "accessibility layer" on top of S3 or any other s3-compatible backend (which means that it also works with MinIO out-of-the-box [0]) I don't think we'll ever build the underlying storage layer. I'm a big fan of what the Tigris[1] team have built if you're looking for other good s3 alternatives [0] https://github.com/supabase/storage/blob/master/docker-compo... [1] Tigris: https://tigrisdata.com

In Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol

kiwicopple·Aug 9, 2023

> Are you intending to fill the roll of being a framework akin to a "super django" type of deal? We don't plan to replace any specific framework. We simply want to make Postgres easier to use. You can use Django (or any other framework) and Supabase together. We provide some additional tooling on top, but we aim to make this tooling 100% compatible with other tools. As an example, here[1] is a change we made recently so that our Storage service works better with Clerk (a popular Auth service, which is a good alternative to our own Auth service). We plan to document this better - it was one of the promises I made in the OP. > Are there plans to expand self-hosting support? we made a few updates[0] this week to improve self-hosting based on the common feedback. if there is anything missing just let me know and i will do another round of imp

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rovements. > currently some like the AI features aren't really explained if they work in the self-hosted or not, or if you have to do anything special for that. nothing is feature-gated so everything works on self-hosted. That said, I agree that we can be better at explaining the self-hosting. We are putting a lot more effort into improving our docs in general. For self-hosting we can certainly be clearer about the boundaries where you are responsible (eg, you need to take care of your own backups, the AI features will require external acconts). we're working on this, but feel free to open issues where it's unclear we can address anything specific [0] https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/16097 [1] https://github.com/supabase/storage-api/pull/340

In Supabase Local Dev: migrations, branching, and observability

kiwicopple·Dec 13, 2022

hey hn, supabase ceo here hopefully it's obvious from the title what we're shipping today. "Supabase Storage" is for larger assets - it's a wrapper around s3, where the buckets/folders are mapped into your postgres database so that you can write access rules using Row Level Security. This release adds image resizing. It looks like this: supabase.storage.from('bucket').getPublicUrl('image.jpg', { transform: { width: 500, height: 600, }, }) In tandem added some webhooks/events to the storage server to enable some smarter cache-busting. We're using Cloudflare for caching on our hosted platform, but the addition of webhooks should provide the primitives to use any CDN/service. The Storage API is 100% open source and can be hosted as a standalone server (with Postgres+PostgREST): https://github.com/supabase

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In Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN

steve-chavez·Mar 30, 2021

> We use open source to build our software (hey nothing special here : bazillion companies do that) That's not true. Supabase improves and builds the open source ecosystem it uses. In the case of PostgREST, we've added performance improvements that could very well be in a private fork(which other companies have done), but Supabase, in the good spirit of open source, decided to make these changes upstream. The same goes for realtime, the team has been improving its performance to an enterprise-grade and making all these changes open source. Even the storage API[1] presented here is OSS. I believe all of these efforts are a net win for the open source community at large. Zealotry doesn't help anyone. [1]: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api

In Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

kiwicopple·Mar 30, 2021

Hey HN, Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools. We're particularly focused on scalability. We take proven tools like Postgres, and we make them as easy to use as Firebase. Today Supabase is releasing Storage. This is our second launch of Launch Week[1]. The linked blog post goes into depth around the technical implementation, so I’ll just give a recap for the people who jump straight to comments (like me). Backend: We are using S3 as a File store. Since most storage platforms have an S3-compatible API, this made the most sense. We will add more providers (like Backblaze) in the future. Middleware: This is the key part. We assessed a lot of tools including Ceph, Swift, Minio and Zenko. These are all awesome, but they aren’t tightly integrated with Po

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stgres. The tooling in Supabase is centered around Postgres: the APIs use PostgREST[2], the Realtime engine hooks into Postgres’ WAL[3] and we use GoTrue[4] + Postgres Row Level Security[5] for Auth. Since we already use RLS for Auth, we decided to leverage the same functionality for managing access to Files. We created an API [6] which wraps everything up into a nice interface. This obviously goes against our philosophy of “support existing tools” - the linked blog post describes our rationale more thoroughly. Future: This is very much an “alpha” release of Storage. We have a lot of great features planned for a CDN, automatic resizing, optimizations, and since it’s using Postgres there potentially are a few neat things we can do with Full Text Search and Data Loading. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, and @1_over_n [1] Launch week: https://supabase.io/new/blog/2021/03/25/launch-week [2] PostgREST: http://postgrest.org/ [3] Realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime [4] GoTrue: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker [5] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html [6] Storage API: https://github.com/supabase/storage-api

In Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)