Patent ID: 8700683

Claim:
A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal based, at least in part, on the following: one or more files stored in at least one stream-based file store; a grouping of the one or more files into at least one key-value directory, wherein the key-value directory includes, at least in part, one or more key-value pairs of a distributed key-value store; and a storage of (a) at least one identifier of the one or more files, the at least one key-value directory, or a combination thereof as one or more keys of the one or more key-value pairs; and (b) block-based access information associated with the one or more files as one or more values of the key-value pairs.