--- title: How Google stores Exabytes of Data | daily.dev description: How Google stores Exabytes of Data Google Colossus is Google’s Distributed File System. It can scale to tens of thousands of machines and exabytes of storage.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-google-stores-exabytes-of-data-pqbfcixen twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Google stores Exabytes of Data | daily.dev og:description: How Google stores Exabytes of Data Google Colossus is Google’s Distributed File System. It can scale to tens of thousands of machines and exabytes of storage.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-google-stores-exabytes-of-data-pqbfcixen og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PQBfCiXEN.png og:image:alt: How Google stores Exabytes of Data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Google stores Exabytes of Data **[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 13 min read · 12 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary How Google stores Exabytes of Data Google Colossus is Google’s Distributed File System. It can scale to tens of thousands of machines and exabytes of storage. Colossus is the next generation of Google File System, a distributed file system built in the early 2000s. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jdgamble555** · 0 upvotes > Very technical overview... too technical for some... --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql), [#influxdb](https://daily.dev/tags/influxdb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-google-stores-exabytes-of-data-pqbfcixen) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Google stores Exabytes of Data","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-google-stores-exabytes-of-data-pqbfcixen","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-google-stores-exabytes-of-data-pqbfcixen"},"datePublished":"2023-04-30T21:44:07.108Z","dateModified":"2023-04-30T21:44:07.107Z","description":"How Google stores Exabytes of Data Google Colossus is Google’s Distributed File System. 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