How Bucket Forking Brings GitHub-Style Forking To Object Storage

Although forking is fairly routine in code platforms like GitHub and different file systems, it’s not been a feature in object storage. Aiming to change that, Tigris Data has introduced bucket forking, which allows organizations to fork their data — without unwieldy copies, time-consuming delays, escalating costs, data governance issues, or security and regulatory woes — with the same ease with which you can fork code in GitHub.

What Is Bucket Forking?

Bucket forking is underpinned by snapshots of the data, which effectively freeze the…