In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a distributed user level file system which stores, processes, retrieves and manages data in a Hadoop cluster. HDFS infrastructure that Hadoop provides, include ...

Gluster, a provider of open source storage solutions, has just released a version of its storage system that includes support for Apache Hadoop. GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 employs standard file system APIs ...

Hadoop accomplishes this by applying more efficient formats and file systems to large datasets that would normally have been out of the reach of standard analytics solutions. For more articles on this ...