WebHDFS – HTTP REST Access to HDFS
Motivation Apache Hadoop provides a high performance native protocol for accessing HDFS. While this is great for Hadoop applications running inside a Hadoop cluster, users often want to connect to HDFS...
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This blog is a follow up on our previous blog “Snapshots for HDFS” In June we had posted an early prototype of snapshots that allowed us to experiment with a few ideas in HDFS-2802. Since then we have...
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The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the reliable and scalable data storage core of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). In HDP, HDFS and YARN combine to form the distributed operating system...
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This is the third post in a series exploring recent innovations in the Hadoop ecosystem that are included in Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.2. In this post, we introduce the theme of supporting...
View ArticleWebHDFS – HTTP REST Access to HDFS
Motivation Apache Hadoop provides a high performance native protocol for accessing HDFS. While this is great for Hadoop applications running inside a Hadoop cluster, users often want to connect to HDFS...
View ArticleCommunity-driven Snapshot for HDFS – Part TWO
This blog is a follow up on our previous blog “Snapshots for HDFS” In June we had posted an early prototype of snapshots that allowed us to experiment with a few ideas in HDFS-2802. Since then we have...
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