Storix
Storage for Unix lovers.
One unix-flavored filesystem API over any storage: local disk, in-memory,
Azure Data Lake. Python-first, sync and async, sandboxable, fully typed.
Documentation: storix.mghalix.com
Storix puts one unix filesystem interface in front of every storage backend, so
you work with cloud storage the way you already work with local files: ls,
cd, cat, mkdir, mv, rm. The backend can be your disk, an in-memory
store for tests, or Azure Data Lake in production, behind one small, fully typed
API, sync or async. Swap the backend, keep the code.
It is not a plumbing competitor to the cloud SDKs. It is the ergonomic layer over them, the way FastAPI is a layer over the web rather than a new web server.
Install
uv add storix # local filesystem + in-memory
uv add "storix[azure]" # + Azure Data Lake Gen2 (HNS accounts)
uv add "storix[cli]" # + the sx command-line interface
uv add "storix[all]" # all optional features
Quick look
from storix import Storix
from storix.backends import LocalBackend
fs = Storix(LocalBackend('~/storix-data')) # '/' is anchored at ~/storix-data
fs.mkdir('/docs')
fs.echo('hello, storix!', '/docs/readme.txt')
print(fs.cat('/docs/readme.txt')) # b'hello, storix!'
fs.cd('/docs') # a session has a cwd, like a shell
fs.mkdir('/archive')
fs.mv('readme.txt', '/archive') # the last argument is the destination
Async is the same API under storix.aio, generated from the sync source so the
two never drift:
from storix.aio import get_storage
async with get_storage('azure') as fs:
await fs.echo(b'...', '/report.csv')
print(await fs.url('/report.csv', expires_in=600)) # presigned SAS link
Highlights
- Unix semantics, everywhere.
ls/cd/cat/du/mvwith a real session and cwd, identical across local, memory, and cloud. Thecliextra adds ansxshell too. - Python-first and streaming.
echotakesbytes,str, an iterator, or an async iterator, so large files move through bounded memory instead of loading whole. - Composable layers. Sandbox a session (escape-proof chroot), add a read-through cache, or backfill capabilities, all as middleware that wraps any backend.
- Sync and async, one API, generated from a single source and proven by one conformance suite across every backend.
- Typed and safe. Fully typed and
py.typed. Every failure raises a typed error, and a sandbox cannot be escaped, not even by the code inside it.
Full tutorials, task recipes (FastAPI, settings, caching, testing, custom backends), and the API reference live at storix.mghalix.com.
Backends
| Backend | Import | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Local disk | storix.backends.LocalBackend |
anchored at a base directory |
| In-memory | storix.backends.MemoryBackend |
reference backend, great for tests |
| Azure ADLS Gen2 | storix.backends.AzureBackend |
requires hierarchical namespaces |
Third-party backends implement the small StorageBackend port and register via
register_backend(). See
Write a custom backend.
Migrating from 0.1.x
0.2.0 was a ground-up rework (hexagonal core, generated sync flavor, layers, capabilities). See the migration table in release-notes.md.
License
Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.
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