Systems and methods for providing a compute-centric object store. An exemplary method may include receiving a request to perform a compute operation on at least a portion of an object store from a first user, the request identifying parameters of the compute operation, assigning virtual operating system containers to the objects of the object store from a pool of virtual operating system containers. The virtual operating system containers may perform the compute operation on the objects according to the identified parameters of the request. The method may also include clearing the virtual operating system containers and returning the virtual operating system containers to the pool.