With file systems, searching for files (e.g. find all documents) requires traversing the entire directory hierarchy. With hard drives this comes at a cost of ma

With file systems, searching for files (e.g. find all documents) requires traversing the entire directory hierarchy. With hard drives this comes at a cost of many seeks. The last time I traversed a folder tree with over 100 million files, it took more than 30 minutes to complete. A properly designed object store can find everything in less than a minute.