yes, it is pretty tricky. blob store is not hdfs and people are simulating file system interfaces on top of blob store.
hopefully, our pluggable file system design can abstract the common part out, and add special handling for semantic differences. Cheers Lei On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Vineet Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Recently, a question came up whether HAWQ can support Azure with it's > blob > > storage (WASB), given that WASB is HDFS compatible. > > This is a pretty tricky statement. More here on blob stores vs. file > systems: > https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project- > dist/hadoop-common/filesystem/introduction.html#Object_ > Stores_vs._Filesystems > > Thanks, > Roman. >
