It’s not often the case that I have a chance to concur with my colleague E14 over at Hortonworks but his recent blog post gave the perfect opportunity. I wanted to build on a few of E14’s points and add some of my own.
A recent GigaOm article presented 8 alternatives to HDFS. They actually missed at least 4 others. For over a year, Parascale marketed itself as an HDFS alternative (until it became an asset sale to Hitachi). Appistry continues to market its HDFS alternative. I’m not sure if it’s released yet but it is very evident that Symantec’s Veritas unit is proposing its Clustered Filesystem (CFS) as an alternative to HDFS as well. HP Ibrix has also supported the HDFS API for some years now.
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