This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

MapR's file system was its original differentiator in the Hadoop market: unlike standard HDFS, which is optimized for reading, and supports writing to a file only once, MapR-FS fully supports the read ...

One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated ...

Google Hadoop customers can now run MapReduce jobs directly against data stored in the Google Cloud Storage and leave HDFS out of the big data equation as a result of a new cloud storage Hadoop ...

At the height of the Hadoop era there were countless storage and analytics startups based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), several of which were backed by venture capital firm Andreessen ...