it's like a key-value store, (or a dictionary). However, the values are objects (big blobs of data). This means you can't update parts of objects without rewrit

it's like a key-value store, (or a dictionary). However, the values are objects (big blobs of data). This means you can't update parts of objects without rewriting the blob. However, most of the object stores offer metadata operations (move, tag, ...), concat of n objects into 1 and partial reads.