S3-Compatible Object Store with NVMe Hot Tier

Object storage built for sub-millisecond video ingestion.

Vessel distributes media payloads across 42 edge PoPs with automatic chunk deduplication and instant streaming replication.

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4.2 ms

TTFB Worldwide

100 GB/s

Egress Bandwidth

$0.004

Per GB Stored

cluster-us-east-edge.ts

STATUS: OPTIMAL

// Initialize high-throughput bucket replication

import { VesselClient } from '@vessel/core';

const storage = new VesselClient({
  region: 'global-auto',
  dedupStrategy: 'content-defined-chunking',
  nvmeTiering: true,
});

// Ingest 4K raw stream with direct edge write

await storage.buckets.ingest('live-broadcast-01', stream, {
quorum: 'majority',
maxChunkSize: 4 * 1024 * 1024
});

Replication Factor: 3x Checksum: SHA-256 Validated

Direct Kernel I/O Bypass Architecture

Standard object stores bottleneck in user-space buffer copies. Vessel's custom Linux kernel driver transfers data directly between network interface queues and NVMe storage rings.

PRIMARY ADVANTAGE

Zero Memory Copy Pipeline

Packets avoid intermediate copying into runtime heaps. 40 Gbps line rates require less than 4% total CPU utilization per storage node.

Ingress Pipeline Comparison 12.4x Lower CPU Overhead

Standard S3 MinIO / Ceph 58% CPU @ 20Gbps

Vessel Direct-IO Driver 4.2% CPU @ 20Gbps

SECONDARY PILLAR

Content-Defined Chunk Deduplication

FastCDC algorithm extracts identical frame blocks across video versions, cutting raw storage footprints by an average of 64.8%.

SECONDARY PILLAR

Zero Egress Markup Fees

Direct private peering across 42 global internet exchange points eliminates multi-cloud transfer penalties completely.

Verified Performance Benchmarks

Median latency under 5,000 concurrent 64MB streaming reads.

Audited via K6 benchmark suite on AWS c6i.metal

STORAGE ENGINE	TTFB (P50)	TTFB (P99)	THROUGHPUT	EGRESS COST
Vessel Edge Cluster	4.2 ms	11.8 ms	9.8 GB/s	$0.00 / GB
AWS S3 Standard (us-east-1)	42.0 ms	180.4 ms	3.2 GB/s	$0.09 / GB
Google Cloud Storage Multi-Region	38.5 ms	165.0 ms	3.6 GB/s	$0.12 / GB

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