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supabase/storage: S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

supabase/storage: S3 compatible object storage service that stores metadata in Postgres

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A scalable, lightweight object storage service.

Read this post on why we decided to build a new object storage service.
  • Multi-protocol support (HTTP, TUS, S3, Iceberg)
  • Uses Postgres as its datastore for storing metadata
  • Authorization rules are written as Postgres Row Level Security policies
  • Integrates with S3 Compatible Storages
  • Extremely lightweight and performant
Supported Protocols
  • [x] HTTP/REST
  • [x] TUS Resumable Upload
  • [x] S3 Compatible API
  • [x] Iceberg REST Catalog
!Architecture

Documentation

Development

  • Copy .env.sample to .env file.
  • Copy .env.test.sample to .env.test.
cp .env.sample .env && cp .env.test.sample .env.test

Your root directory should now have both .env and .env.test files.

  • Then run the following:
# this sets up a postgres database and postgrest locally via docker
npm run infra:restart

Start the storage server

npm run dev

The server should now be running at http://localhost:5000/

The following request should insert and return the list of buckets.

# insert a bucket named avatars
curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:5000/bucket' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyb2xlIjoic2VydmljZV9yb2xlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEzNTMxOTg1LCJleHAiOjE5MjkxMDc5ODV9.th84OKK0Iz8QchDyXZRrojmKSEZ-OuitQm_5DvLiSIc' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "avatars"
}'

get buckets

curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:5000/bucket' \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyb2xlIjoic2VydmljZV9yb2xlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEzNTMxOTg1LCJleHAiOjE5MjkxMDc5ODV9.th84OKK0Iz8QchDyXZRrojmKSEZ-OuitQm_5DvLiSIc'

Testing

To perform your tests you can run the following command: npm test

Code Quality

  • Check: npm run lint
  • Automatic fix if possible: npm run lint:fix
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