Hi, For your question if HADOOP can be used without HDFS, the answer is Yes. Hadoop can be used with any kind of distributed file system. But I m not able to understand the problem statement clearly to advice my point of view. Are you processing text file and saving in distributed database??
Regards, Abhishek On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Pierre Antoine Du Bois De Naurois < pad...@gmail.com> wrote: > We want to distribute processing of text files.. processing of large > machine learning tasks, have a distributed database as we have big amount > of data etc. > > The problem is that each VM can have up to 2TB of data (limitation of VM), > and we have 20TB of data. So we have to distribute the processing, the > database etc. But all those data will be in a shared huge central file > system. > > We heard about myHadoop, but we are not sure why is that any different from > Hadoop. > > If we run hadoop/mapreduce without using HDFS? is that an option? > > best, > PA > > > 2012/5/17 Mathias Herberts <mathias.herbe...@gmail.com> > > > Hadoop does not perform well with shared storage and vms. > > > > The question should be asked first regarding what you're trying to > achieve, > > not about your infra. > > On May 17, 2012 10:39 PM, "Pierre Antoine Du Bois De Naurois" < > > pad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > We have about 50 VMs and we want to distribute processing across them. > > > However these VMs share a huge data storage system and thus their > > "virtual" > > > HDD are all located in the same computer. Would Hadoop be useful for > such > > > configuration? Could we use hadoop without HDFS? so that we can > retrieve > > > and store everything in the same storage? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > PA > > > > > >
