Low-latency metadata access method of cloud storage client

The invention discloses a low-latency metadata access method of a cloud storage client, aiming to solve the problems of slow metadata access response and the like during metadata access. The technical proposal is as follows: a metadata access module composed of a metadata definition module, a metadata importing module, a metadata request response module and a metadata uploading module is mounted on the cloud storage client node; the metadata definition module determines the content and the format of the used metadata; the metadata importing module imports a metadata file into a key value pair database from the cloud storage server; the metadata request response module performs metadata operation according to a metadata access command; and the metadata uploading module uploads a local metadata file to the cloud storage server. Due to the adoption of the low-latency metadata access method provided by the invention, the network transmission latency of metadata access can be eliminated, the metadata server can be prevented from becoming performance bottleneck, the condition that the same cloud storage client node can access heteroid cloud storage systems is supported and the security of the metadata is improved.