Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. Oracle ZFS

This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation.

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For scenarios where the implementation is an Oracle ecosystem and the need for high-performance storage is present, undoubtedly the ideal solution is Oracle ZFS due to the native integration that exists, for example, with SPARC equipment, Exadata, and traditional architecture running Oracle Linux or Solariums (depending on the case), as well as in highly demanding industries in terms of storage.

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• EFS is easily made high-availability.
• EFS is simple to implement.
• EFS uses native NFS file-sharing protocol.

Incentivized

• Software RAIDZ. Create storage arrays using best available RAID technologies for excellent disk stability
• Array images and backups. Allows administrators to instantly create disk snapshots, to minimize time disk is unavailable (on the order of seconds, not minutes or hours).
• Automatic de-deduplication/compression. ZFS will automatically de-dedup data on disk, allowing for more efficient use of the entire disk for unique data. It will also automatically compress data stored on the disk, allowing for even more usage of the available disk space. Great for infrequently accessed backups (There is some performance cost to compression).

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• Integration with Windows instances is not supported

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• Because it was due to a software originally designed for Solaris. configuration in other environments can be cumbersome for inexperienced implementers.
• The proprietary particularity of this File System makes it in some cases very difficult to implement in highly heterogeneous environments.
• I think that additional forms of integration with more environments should be created.

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The documentation is sufficient for setting up and it is basic NFS for mounting so not much support is required. I have not had any issues to warrant a request with AWS support.

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Both S3 and EBS have their place in implementations but it does matter in looking at technology solutions from a total viewpoint of marrying various projects and systems and then weighing the advantages (and disadvantages) of EFS against them.

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ZFS is so far beyond the other filesystems available right now, offering full suites of tools for data management, backup, recovery, maintenance, monitoring, etc. It's not even fair to compare them.

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• Positive: Highly scalable solution, more than 6 month for bug fixing exist only product improvement is there
• Positive : Dynamic file maintenance to make sure no session time out issue
• Negative: Nothing as such

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• In highly transactional and data-intensive environments such as 200 million records per month or more.
• Banking also represents an ideal niche for this type of implementation due to its high volume of data and the need for security in this industry with over 100 million records per day and online history maintenance for more than 10 years (in most cases).
• The Return on Investment or ROI is clearly seen in the medium term since your storage solution would be in your safekeeping without having to pay anything additional to regular maintenance.

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