Hadoop file systems
As Internet search engines were emerging, the requirement to provide search capabilities on unstructured, variable, and high-volume data increased dramatically. Unlike enterprise systems, there is little need to enforce referential integrity and perform deduplication or other data management functions on text data, photographs, social networks, and time-series measurements. The Hadoop file system (HDFS) provides inexpensive storage and search capabilities for highly variable, high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety data, or the 4 Vs of big data, and provides inexpensive storage for very large volumes of data.
As described in Chapter 6, Defining the Data and Analytics Architecture, the Hadoop storage platform distributes ...
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