KineticaFS is a region-aware file lifecycle manager for S3-based storage. It tracks file usage across regions, migrates hot files closer to clients, and safely removes unused ones using reference-counting and GC.
- 📦 S3-compatible: Works with any S3-compatible storage backend (AWS, MinIO, Wasabi, etc.)
- 🌍 Region-aware: Detects file access patterns and migrates "hot" files closer to clients
- 🧠 Smart pointers: Tracks file references in your system to prevent premature deletion
- ♻️ Garbage collection: Removes unreferenced or expired files safely and automatically
- File reference tracking API (
CreateRef,DeleteRef,ListRefs) 🔥 - File upload 🔥
- Scylla Cassandra Support 🔥
- Migration logic
- Per-region heatmap tracking
- GC for unreferenced files 🔥
- Basic observability (logs, metrics)
- Public and expiring file links
- Optional TTL per reference
- Support for batch import/export
- Multi-tenant support
- NATS hook for event-driven GC
- Custom metadata indexing
- Integration with Prometheus / Grafana
- WASM hooks for file filters / pre-upload logic
- Admin panel / metrics endpoint
- K8s Operator
- PgSql Support
- Dotnet Client Library 🔥
KineticaFS is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later).
This ensures that all improvements and deployments based on this code must remain open source.
See LICENSE for the full text.