HDFS
Hadoop Distributed File System
Caution
Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
Since 2006
Judgement: Caution
Hadoop-era distributed FS; object storage replaced it for nearly all new builds.
Distributed file system designed to run on commodity hardware, originally inspired by Google File System. The storage substrate of the classic Hadoop stack.
Object storage (S3 and friends) has displaced HDFS in most new architectures, but large existing deployments mean it remains an important interface to support.
At a glance
- Category
- Storage Systems
- Governance
- Apache Software Foundation
- Status
- Stable; mature, declining in greenfield projects
- First released
- 2006
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Storage Systems.
- S3 — Amazon S3 API
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