The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General ...

To me, Hadoop 2.0 is an Enterprise maturity turning point for Hadoop, and thus for Big Data: HDFS loses its single-point-of-failure through a secondary standby "name node." ...

Among the companies trying to blend the old “big data” world and the new one in AI/ML is software-defined storage company, Quobyte, which today described a new driver they’ve developed for Hadoop that ...

HDFS instances are divided into two components: the namenode, which maintains metadata to track the placement of physical data across the Hadoop instance and datanodes, which actually store the data.

For instance, the 3x replication scheme for data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem (HDFS 2.X) incurred a 200% overhead in storage and other resources.

One of these is Ozone, an object store designed to extend HDFS to support the concept of “bucket spaces.” Hortonworks launched Ozone last year and the project is now incubating. Storiant is also ...

Hadoop Distribution version 2 is the first to support multitenancy, which can offer a number of benefits. The management software can now support multiple clusters, offering administrators the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Quobyte® Inc., the leading developer of scale-out deploy-anywhere software-defined storage (SDS), today announced the availability of its Hadoop ...

“We are targeting both of them squarely,” said Lall. “If you are an HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) customer with a supply of Hortonworks [and] you need a future, come to us.