Write-once read-often distributed file storage for .NET?

I have a C#/.NET application that needs to store variable-sized binary blobs (10KB - 100MB) in a central repository. MogileFS meets my needs exactly (wr开发者_运维百科ite-once, highly available, transparent horizontal scalability, optimized for commodity hardware) but the lack of .NET bindings suggests there's some other more .NET-ish way of doing this.

Or should I just be writing those bindings?

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You may consider Raven DB for this. It's optimized for a higher read to write ratio than other solutions, and it's .NET specific. The support for distributed scenarios, including sharding, multi-tenancy, etc are baked in.

Raven DB Website

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I would suggest you look at CloudIQ Storage from Appistry. Its a fully distributed data store that runs on commodity hardware. You can define the number of copies of a file it maintains across nodes on a file by file basis. So if you write a file once, but have many concurrent reads, you can set the value of N (number of copies of a file) to a large number to get greater concurrency.

The system implements a REST based interface for PUT's and GET's, and meta data is returned in JSON, so there are many good libraries available in .NET.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest MySQL. If you're using MySQL with MyISAM, It would seem to me to fit your needs quite well. If you want highly available, your can use replication to mirror the data across many machines. If you want even more highly available, you can migrate to MySQL Cluster. The .Net bindings for MySQL work quite well. Unless you really need something more specialized, which from your small description, it doesn't seem you do, then MySQL could be up to the task. The advantage of using a standard RDBMS, even when you don't necessarily need all it's features it that it's easy to find developers who already know how to work with it.