Wedoany.com Report on Feb 4th, Redwood City, California, USA – Data storage company MinIO has announced the general availability of its AIStor Tables product. This product effectively addresses the separation of structured and unstructured data within enterprises by integrating tabular data with object data in a single high-performance storage system. AIStor Tables natively supports the Apache Iceberg format, becoming the industry's first solution to directly integrate the complete Iceberg V3 Catalog REST API into data storage.
MinIO AIStor Tables achieves the unification of enterprise data storage, enabling AI agents to process both tabular and object data simultaneously. This integration eliminates the barrier between traditional databases and object storage, allowing AI systems to access the complete enterprise data asset, supporting large-scale analytics and agent applications.
The product deeply integrates the Apache Iceberg V3 API into the AIStor platform, marking a significant advancement in how enterprises prepare and utilize data. Through the AIStor Tables functionality, Iceberg tables receive prioritized support within the system, including view capabilities and multi-table transaction processing. Customers can store and query data more efficiently and perform atomic multi-table operations using industry-standard catalogs. Compared to similar products, MinIO's solution helps users reduce storage costs.
AB Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, stated: "The data layer is now the decisive factor in realizing enterprise AI value. When structured and unstructured data are unified, the learning and reasoning capabilities of AI systems will be significantly enhanced. Only an object-native architecture can enable data to flow quickly and be prepared for large-scale AI applications. AIStor Tables brings all enterprise data together in high-performance storage, directly serving analytics and AI systems."
AIStor Tables provides a high-performance data storage solution where tabular and object data coexist under a unified data plane and security framework. The system can seamlessly scale from smaller deployments to exabyte levels, enabling enterprises to treat all data as AI-ready resources. Its value is fully realized when analytics, data science, and AI workloads run on the same data source.
The product is designed with an object-native architecture, specifically built for high-performance enterprise AI and analytics workloads. Compared to traditional storage solutions, this design reduces operational complexity while improving flexibility without compromising performance. AIStor Tables supports seamless scaling across edge, on-premises, and hybrid environments, allowing a single system to comprehensively support all types of analytics and AI applications.
Conor Brennan, Managing Director of Risk Management IT at Nomura Securities, commented: "MinIO AIStor Tables fundamentally simplifies the building and operation of data pipelines by enabling analytics and AI workloads to run directly on the same data. This allows us to accelerate action, reduce operational complexity and disaster recovery processes, and treat all data equally."
AIStor Tables is now available globally as part of MinIO AIStor, supporting deployment in on-premises, private, and hybrid environments. Enterprise users can obtain and implement this solution directly from official channels.
