One of my first questions about hadoop was, "How do systems outside the cluster interact with the file system?" I read several documents that described streaming data into hadoop for processing, but I had trouble finding examples.
The goal of LHadoop Server (L stands for Lightweight) is to produce a VERY simple interface to allow streaming READ and WRITE access to hadoop. The client side of the connection interacts using a simple text based protocol. Any type of client, perl,c++, telnet, can interact with hadoop. There is no need to have Java on the client. The protocol works like this: bash-3.2# nc localhost 9090 AUTH ecapriolo password server>>OK:AUTH READ /letsgo server>>OK. OMG. Is this going to work Lets see ^C Site: http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgweb/lhadoopserver/ SVN: http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgwebrepo/jtglhadoopserver I know several other methods exist to get access to a hadoop including Fuse. Again, I could not find anyone doing something like this. Does anyone have any ideas or think this is useful? Thank you,
