Ceph’s software libraries provide client applications with direct access to the RADOS object-based storage system, and also provide a foundation for some of Ceph’s advanced features, including RADOS Block Device (RBD), RADOS Gateway (RGW), and the Ceph File System (CephFS).
Ceph Object Gateway is an object storage interface built on top of librados to provide applications with a RESTful gateway to Ceph Storage Clusters. Ceph Object Storage supports two interfaces:
The Ceph librados software libraries enable applications written in C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, and several others, to access Ceph’s object storage system using native APIs. The librados libraries provide advanced features, including:
