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Update object storage definition in glossary #16615

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.. _glossObjectStorage:

Object Storage
`Object storage <https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage>`_ is a file
storage mechanism that stores data in a flat namespace, as opposed to
hierarchical filesystems. Files written in object storage are immutable,
meaning you cannot update a file but just overwrite or replace the entire
file. In the context of Trino, object storage commonly refers to `cloud
storage <https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage#Cloud_storage>`_
technologies such as `Amazon S3 <https://aws.amazon.com/s3>`_, `Google Cloud
Storage <https://cloud.google.com/storage>`_, and `Azure Blob Storage
<https://azure.microsoft.com/products/storage/blobs>`_. In addition to
cloud-hosted services, there are also local object storage options such as
`MinIO <https://min.io/>`_ and `Ceph <https://docs.ceph.com>`_ that are
compatible with S3. Object storage became a popular replacement to
:ref:`HDFS <glossHDFS>`.
Object storage
`Object storage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage>`_ is a file
storage mechanism. Examples of compatible object stores include the
following:

* `Amazon S3 <https://aws.amazon.com/s3>`_
* `Google Cloud Storage <https://cloud.google.com/storage>`_
* `Azure Blob Storage <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/blobs>`_
* `MinIO <https://min.io/>`_ and other S3-compatible stores
* :ref:`HDFS <glossHDFS>`

.. _glossOpenSource:

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