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diff --git a/minio-alternatives/apache-ozone/docker-compose.yml b/minio-alternatives/apache-ozone/docker-compose.yml
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+services:
+  scm:
+    image: apache/ozone:2.1.0
+    ports:
+      - "9876:9876"
+    environment:
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.names: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.datanode.id.dir: /data/metadata
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.block.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.metadata.dirs: /data/metadata
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.replication: "1"
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.scm.safemode.min.datanode: "1"
+      ENSURE_SCM_INITIALIZED: /data/metadata/scm/current/VERSION
+    command: ["ozone", "scm"]
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:9876/"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 3s
+      retries: 10
+
+  om:
+    image: apache/ozone:2.1.0
+    ports:
+      - "9874:9874"
+    environment:
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.om.address: om
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.om.http-address: om:9874
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.names: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.block.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.metadata.dirs: /data/metadata
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.replication: "1"
+      ENSURE_OM_INITIALIZED: /data/metadata/om/current/VERSION
+      WAITFOR: scm:9876
+    command: ["ozone", "om"]
+    depends_on:
+      scm:
+        condition: service_healthy
+
+  datanode:
+    image: apache/ozone:2.1.0
+    ports:
+      - "9864:9864"
+    environment:
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.datanode.dir: /data/hdds
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.metadata.dirs: /data/metadata
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.names: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.block.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.replication: "1"
+    command: ["ozone", "datanode"]
+    depends_on:
+      scm:
+        condition: service_healthy
+
+  s3g:
+    image: apache/ozone:2.1.0
+    ports:
+      - "9878:9878"
+    environment:
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.om.address: om
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.names: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.block.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.scm.client.address: scm
+      OZONE-SITE.XML_ozone.replication: "1"
+    command: ["ozone", "s3g"]
+    depends_on:
+      scm:
+        condition: service_healthy
+      om:
+        condition: service_started
+      datanode:
+        condition: service_started
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - s3g
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      sleep 10;
+      until (mc alias set ozone http://s3g:9878 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p ozone/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://s3g:9878
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/apache-ozone/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/apache-ozone/test.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/apache-ozone/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓▓ Ozone  ▒▒▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking Ozone buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls ozone
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 's3g:9878',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 's3g:9878', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking Ozone bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive ozone/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""
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+++ b/minio-alternatives/cloudserver/docker-compose.yml
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+services:
+  cloudserver:
+    image: ghcr.io/scality/cloudserver:9.2.8
+    platform: linux/amd64
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    environment:
+      S3BACKEND: mem
+      REMOTE_MANAGEMENT_DISABLE: "1"
+      LOG_LEVEL: info
+      ENDPOINT: "cloudserver,s3.docker.internal,localhost,127.0.0.1"
+      SCALITY_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      SCALITY_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - cloudserver
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      until (mc alias set cloudserver http://cloudserver:8000 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p cloudserver/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://cloudserver:8000
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/cloudserver/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/cloudserver/test.sh
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index 0000000..bd16bef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/cloudserver/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓CloudServer▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "Waiting for all services to be ready..."
+until docker compose exec mc mc ls cloudserver >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for CloudServer..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+until curl -sf http://localhost:8181/v1/config >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for Iceberg REST..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking CloudServer buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls cloudserver
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 'cloudserver:8000',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 'cloudserver:8000', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking CloudServer bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive cloudserver/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""
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diff --git a/minio-alternatives/garage/docker-compose.yml b/minio-alternatives/garage/docker-compose.yml
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+++ b/minio-alternatives/garage/docker-compose.yml
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+services:
+  garage:
+    image: dxflrs/garage:v1.0.0
+    ports:
+      - "9000:3900"
+      - "9001:3902"
+    environment:
+      GARAGE_RPC_SECRET: "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef"
+    command: /garage -c /etc/garage.toml server
+    configs:
+      - source: garage-config
+        target: /etc/garage.toml
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "/garage", "-c", "/etc/garage.toml", "status"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 3s
+      retries: 10
+
+  garage-init:
+    image: alpine:latest
+    depends_on:
+      garage:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      apk add --no-cache docker-cli;
+      CONTAINER=$$(docker ps --filter name=garage-garage-1 --format '{{.Names}}');
+      NODE_ID=$$(docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml status 2>/dev/null | grep 'NO ROLE ASSIGNED' | awk '{print \$$1}');
+      if [ ! -z \"$$NODE_ID\" ]; then
+        docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml layout assign -z dc1 -c 10G $$NODE_ID;
+        docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml layout apply --version 1;
+        sleep 2;
+      fi;
+      docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml key import -n admin --yes GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4 9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93 2>/dev/null || true;
+      docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml bucket create warehouse 2>/dev/null || true;
+      docker exec $$CONTAINER /garage -c /etc/garage.toml bucket allow --read --write warehouse --key GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4;
+      echo 'Garage initialization complete';
+      "
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      garage-init:
+        condition: service_completed_successfully
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      mc alias set garage http://garage:3900 GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4 9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93 --insecure;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      garage-init:
+        condition: service_completed_successfully
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://garage:3900
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: 9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
+
+configs:
+  garage-config:
+    content: |
+      metadata_dir = "/var/lib/garage/meta"
+      data_dir = "/var/lib/garage/data"
+      db_engine = "sqlite"
+      replication_mode = "none"
+      rpc_bind_addr = "[::]:3901"
+      rpc_secret = "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef"
+
+      [s3_api]
+      s3_region = "us-east-1"
+      api_bind_addr = "[::]:3900"
+      root_domain = ".s3.garage"
+
+      [s3_web]
+      bind_addr = "[::]:3902"
+      root_domain = ".web.garage"
+
+      [admin]
+      api_bind_addr = "[::]:3903"
+
+      [k2v_api]
+      api_bind_addr = "0.0.0.0:3904"
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/garage/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/garage/test.sh
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index 0000000..2e2ddd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/garage/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓▓ Garage ▒▒▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking Garage buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec garage /garage -c /etc/garage.toml bucket list
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4',
+    SECRET '9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 'garage:3900',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'GKb69252a3b0643e8bd08d4cd4', SECRET '9115be9c9e4994306a4176543b0db461f4eb04c5c8a388676d1b57392d0f4e93', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 'garage:3900', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Listing bucket objects with mc..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive garage/warehouse/
+echo ""
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diff --git a/minio-alternatives/minio/docker-compose.yml b/minio-alternatives/minio/docker-compose.yml
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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+services:
+  minio:
+    image: minio/minio:latest
+    ports:
+      - "9000:9000"
+      - "9001:9001"
+    environment:
+      MINIO_ROOT_USER: admin
+      MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+    command: ["server", "/data", "--console-address", ":9001"]
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - minio
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      until (mc alias set minio http://minio:9000 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p minio/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://minio:9000
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/minio/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/minio/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e750952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/minio/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓▓ MinIO  ▒▒▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking MinIO buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls minio
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 'minio:9000',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 'minio:9000', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking MinIO bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive minio/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""
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diff --git a/minio-alternatives/rustfs/docker-compose.yml b/minio-alternatives/rustfs/docker-compose.yml
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+++ b/minio-alternatives/rustfs/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+services:
+  rustfs:
+    image: rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-alpha.79
+    ports:
+      - "9000:9000"
+      - "9001:9001"
+    environment:
+      RUSTFS_CONSOLE_ENABLE: true
+      RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY: admin
+      RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY: password
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - rustfs
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      until (mc alias set rustfs http://rustfs:9000 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p rustfs/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://rustfs:9000
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/rustfs/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/rustfs/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..40436bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/rustfs/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓▓ RustFS ▒▒▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking MinIO buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls minio
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 'rustfs:9000',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 'rustfs:9000', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking RustFS bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive rustfs/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""
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diff --git a/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/docker-compose.yml b/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/docker-compose.yml
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+++ b/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+services:
+  s3proxy:
+    image: andrewgaul/s3proxy:3.0.0
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    environment:
+      S3PROXY_AUTHORIZATION: aws-v2-or-v4
+      S3PROXY_IDENTITY: admin
+      S3PROXY_CREDENTIAL: password
+      S3PROXY_ENDPOINT: http://0.0.0.0:8000
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - s3proxy
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      until (mc alias set s3proxy http://s3proxy:8000 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p s3proxy/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://s3proxy:8000
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5a1ddfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/s3proxy/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘    ▓S3Proxy▒                █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "Waiting for all services to be ready..."
+until docker compose exec mc mc ls s3proxy >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for s3proxy..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+until curl -sf http://localhost:8181/v1/config >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for Iceberg REST..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking s3proxy buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls s3proxy
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 's3proxy:8000',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 's3proxy:8000', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking s3proxy bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive s3proxy/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""
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+++ b/minio-alternatives/seaweedfs/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+services:
+  seaweedfs:
+    image: chrislusf/seaweedfs:4.06
+    ports:
+      - "9333:9333"
+      - "8888:8888"
+    command: server -s3 -s3.port=9000 -s3.config=/etc/seaweedfs/s3.json -master.port=9333 -volume.port=8080 -filer -filer.port=8888
+    configs:
+      - source: s3-config
+        target: /etc/seaweedfs/s3.json
+
+  mc:
+    image: minio/mc:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - seaweedfs
+    entrypoint: >
+      /bin/sh -c "
+      until (mc alias set seaweedfs http://seaweedfs:9000 admin password) do echo '...waiting...' && sleep 1; done;
+      mc mb -p seaweedfs/warehouse;
+      tail -f /dev/null
+      "
+
+  iceberg-rest:
+    image: tabulario/iceberg-rest:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - mc
+    ports:
+      - "8181:8181"
+    restart: on-failure
+    environment:
+      AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: admin
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: password
+      CATALOG_WAREHOUSE: s3://warehouse/
+      CATALOG_IO__IMPL: org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
+      CATALOG_S3_ENDPOINT: http://seaweedfs:9000
+      CATALOG_S3_ACCESS__KEY__ID: admin
+      CATALOG_S3_SECRET__ACCESS__KEY: password
+      CATALOG_S3_PATH__STYLE__ACCESS: "true"
+      CATALOG_S3_REGION: us-east-1
+
+  duckdb:
+    image: duckdb/duckdb:latest
+    depends_on:
+      - iceberg-rest
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
+
+configs:
+  s3-config:
+    content: |
+      { "identities": [ { "name": "anonymous", "credentials": [ { "accessKey": "admin", "secretKey": "password" } ], "actions": [ "Admin", "Read", "Write" ] } ] }
diff --git a/minio-alternatives/seaweedfs/test.sh b/minio-alternatives/seaweedfs/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d368f9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minio-alternatives/seaweedfs/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo ""
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo "    ▒                                                      ▒"
+echo "    ▓      ___                    ▓▓▓▓▓                    ▓"
+echo "    █  ___( o)>  ┌───────────┐  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒           █"
+echo "    █  \\ <_. )   │  DUCKDB   │  ▓░Local S3 ░▓  ▒▒▒▒        █"
+echo "    █   \`---'    └───────────┘   ▓SeaweedFS▒▒▒             █"
+echo "    ▓           ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓        ░░░                 ▓"
+echo "    ▒  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┃  ICEBERG    ┃  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  Smoke test      ▒"
+echo "    ░  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛  ≋≋≋≋≋≋≋≋                  ░"
+echo "    ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████████████████▓▒░"
+echo ""
+
+echo "Waiting for all services to be ready..."
+until docker compose exec mc mc ls seaweedfs >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for SeaweedFS..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+until curl -sf http://localhost:8181/v1/config >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "...waiting for Iceberg REST..."
+    sleep 2
+done
+echo ""
+
+echo "1. Checking SeaweedFS buckets (before)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls seaweedfs
+echo ""
+
+echo "2. Creating Iceberg table and inserting data..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+
+-- Configure S3
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (
+    TYPE S3,
+    KEY_ID 'admin',
+    SECRET 'password',
+    REGION 'us-east-1',
+    ENDPOINT 'seaweedfs:9000',
+    USE_SSL false,
+    URL_STYLE 'path'
+);
+
+-- Configure Iceberg catalog
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+
+-- Create schema and table
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS cat.test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS cat.test.products;
+CREATE TABLE cat.test.products (id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, price DECIMAL(10,2));
+
+-- Insert data
+INSERT INTO cat.test.products VALUES
+    (1, 'Widget', 9.99),
+    (2, 'Gadget', 19.99),
+    (3, 'Doohickey', 14.99);
+
+-- Query data
+SELECT 'Row count:' as metric, COUNT(*)::VARCHAR as value FROM cat.test.products
+UNION ALL
+SELECT 'Total value:', CAST(SUM(price) AS VARCHAR) FROM cat.test.products;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "3. Verifying data in DuckDB..."
+docker compose exec duckdb duckdb -c "
+INSTALL iceberg;
+INSTALL httpfs;
+LOAD iceberg;
+LOAD httpfs;
+CREATE SECRET s3_secret (TYPE S3, KEY_ID 'admin', SECRET 'password', REGION 'us-east-1', ENDPOINT 'seaweedfs:9000', USE_SSL false, URL_STYLE 'path');
+CREATE SECRET iceberg_secret (TYPE iceberg, TOKEN 'dummy');
+ATTACH 'warehouse' AS cat (TYPE iceberg, ENDPOINT 'http://iceberg-rest:8181', SECRET iceberg_secret);
+SELECT * FROM cat.test.products ORDER BY id;
+"
+echo ""
+
+echo "4. Checking SeaweedFS bucket contents (after)..."
+docker compose exec mc mc ls --recursive seaweedfs/warehouse/test/products/ | head -10
+echo ""