MinIO
| MinIO Object Storage | |
|---|---|
| Developers | MinIO, Inc |
| Initial release | release-1434511043[1] / 17 June 2015 |
| Stable release | 2025-06-13T11-33-47Z[2]
/ 23 June 2025 |
| Written in | Go |
| Type | Object storage |
| License | GNU Affero GPL |
| Website | min |
| Repository | |
MinIO was an object storage system released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.[3] It had an API compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. It was capable of working with unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images with the maximum supported object size being 50TB.[4]
History & development
MinIO was developed by MinIO Inc, a Silicon Valley–based technology startup founded in November 2014.[5].
MinIO has published a number of benchmarks to disclose both its own performance and the performance of an object storage in general. These benchmarks include comparisons to an Amazon S3 for Trino, Presto, and Spark, as well as throughput results for the S3Benchmark on HDD and NVMe drives.[6][7]
MinIO was originally released under Apache License 2.0, but in 2021 it was migrated to AGPLv3.[8]
MinIO released a free "community edition" which was only distributed as a source code release and had a greatly simplified administration interface.[9][10]
On February 13th, 2026, MinIO repository was archived with a message stating that it was no longer maintained.[11]
Architecture
MinIO's storage stack had three major components: MinIO Server, MinIO Client and MinIO Client SDK.
References
- ^ "release-1434511043". 17 June 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
First official Minimalist Object Storage release
- ^ "Bugfix Release". 23 June 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ "Kubernetes storage: It's object or nothing for MinIO | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
- ^ "MinIO Documentation: Thresholds and Limits". min.io. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Miller, Ron (2023-05-15). "Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (2019-07-24). "Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio". blocksandfiles.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "MinIO fires fresh salvo in object storage speed wars". 13 November 2019.
- ^ "From Open Source to Free and Open Source, MinIO is now fully licensed under GNU AGPLv3". MinIO Blog. 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ Borisov, Bobby (2025-10-21). "MinIO Again Under Fire for Source-Only Decision". Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (2025-06-19). "MinIO users complain after admin UI removed from Community Edition". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
- ^ minio. "minio/README.md at 7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f · minio/minio". GitHub. Retrieved 2026-03-13.