orcas
OrcaS is an open-source, ready-to-use content-addressable storage system designed for high performance and broad compatibility across popular operating systems and low-power devices. Built on Content Addressable Storage principles, it guarantees data integrity through content hashing and enables instant object-level deduplication. The system calculates checksums like XXH3 and SHA-256 to detect identical files before upload, storing only a single reference instead of redundant data. This feature reduces upload times from minutes to milliseconds and offers massive storage and bandwidth savings, making it ideal for backup systems, version control, multi-user environments, and CDN edge storage. OrcaS includes enterprise-grade capabilities such as zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption and smart compression. It features a small object packaging mechanism that groups files under 64KB to minimize metadata overhead and I/O operations, improving performance for small files by over tenfold. The software is delivered as a