Alluxio, formerly known as Tachyon, is an open source project from UC Berkeley AMPLab. Alluxio is a distributed memory-centric storage system originally developed as a research project by Haoyuan Li in 2012, then a PhD student and a founding Apache Spark committer at AMPLab. i The project is the storage layer of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS). In 2015, Alluxio, Inc. was founded by Li to commercialize Alluxio, receiving a $7.5 million cash infusion from Andreesen Horowitz. Today, Alluxio has more than 200 contributors from 50 organizations around ...
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