Maintaining Strong Consistency Semantics in a Horizontally Scalable and Highly Available Implementation of HDFS

The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) is the storage layer of Hadoop, scaling to support tens of petabytes of data at companies such as Facebook and Yahoo. One wellknown limitation of HDFS is that its metadata has been stored inmemory on a single node, called the NameNode. To overcome NameNode’s...

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Main Authors: Peiro Sajjad, Hooman, Hakimzadeh Harirbaf, Mahmoud
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT) 2013
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-127464