AON Distributed File System - Resources

The Alpha-Omega Namespace (AON) is a directory structure based on multi-master change-set composition including previous versions of deleted or replaced items.

Modifications to the namespace are recorded by individual change-sets that can be merged together to generate specific versions of the namespace. Compared to version-control systems like GIT, where changes are stored in a specific sequence, the AON composition algorithm is less strict, allowing changes to be merged from multiple sources. This supports use-cases like chat-sessions and other conversations.

In AON the state of a particular directory-structure, a collection, is determined solely by the set of change-sets applied to it, indenpendent from the order the changes are applied. AON operates on a content-index content storage system like the CUBE repository. Stream content is fragmented, compressed and encrypted before stored to the repository.