Filesystems - Yes. You can use NFS/Local FSes for MR. Check this link
for an example of a non-HDFS FS in use:
http://old.nabble.com/Hadoop-over-Lustre--td19092864.html (Solution's
down the thread)

DataBases - No. Not directly AFAIK. However you can write custom
sources (and perhaps sinks) for it for use within MR jobs.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Wenhao Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>   Is it possible to configure Hadoop to use other file system or database
> rather than HDFS? Thanks!
>
> regards,
> W.
>
> --
> ~_~
>



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