This page provides an overview of hierarchical namespace, key features, common use cases, benefits, and limitations to consider.
Hierarchical namespace is a capability offered by Cloud Storage that lets you organize objects into folders. With hierarchical namespace, you can store your data in a logical file system structure. Organizing your data in a file system structure enhances performance, ensures consistency, and simplifies the management of data-intensive and file-oriented workloads.
The folder management operations provide reliability and management capabilities, including creating, deleting, listing, and renaming folders. The hierarchical organization of objects simplifies data organization and streamlines data management tasks. A folder in a bucket with hierarchical namespace enabled can contain objects, other folders, or a combination of both.
You must choose whether or not to use hierarchical namespace when you create the bucket; your bucket's hierarchical namespace setting can't be changed after the bucket is created. For information about enabling hierarchical namespace for your bucket, see Create and manage buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled.