Performance of Cloud File Storage

@dhanikw  @JagathJ  - Do you have any open insights/feedback on the above questions? Please update.

Hi Mathias,

thanks a lot for your response.

Background of my question was that none of my customers uses File Storage until now and therefore I don’t have any experience even if I know the documentation. But now a customer asked for my advice when lifting from Apps10 to IFS Cloud. This customer has millions of files with several TB of data volume. Therefore, for me it was clear that File Storage is the only possibility for such a volume. But customer had the fear that File Storage would be too slow. It’s good that I can tell him now that no significant differences are to be expected.

Best regards, Heinz

We have done some benchmarking related to FS for Remote using a SMB share. The results were that when the number of files increased, we did NOT see a significant drop of performance. This may differ based on your system configuration (we used high speed disk).

If you are using FS in an IFS Cloud Managed Environment, then again you should not see a significant drop as we are using high performance storage accounts for the purpose. 

Out of interest, I ran a quick test on a managed environment using a 12MB file upload to both DB and FS. The DB was indeed slightly faster on average, 816 ms for DB vs 935.39 ms for FS.  

However, we do need to factor in that all files stored in the FS will be scanned (when stored and when retrieved) for viruses using the virus scanner. This is optimized so that we don’t scan unnecessarily. However, the checks done will add to the download time.