And yet another that might be good to check out would be glusterfs, but I was not a fan of their hadoop interface last I checked it. If I have time I'll check it out. On Nov 18, 2013 8:30 PM, "Donald Miner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another option to add to the list would be EMC's Isilon, though that is a > storage hardware appliance. It's a scale-out NAS that has a number of > protocols on top, HDFS being one of the many. It doesn't actually run > anything that looks like HDFS architecturally, but fakes the NameNode and > DataNode RPC calls so it looks like real HDFS to a client. > http://www.emc.com/big-data/scale-out-storage-hadoop.htm > > I used it a few times while I was working for EMC and it was fantastic, > but I never had the chance to try out Accumulo (or HBase). I imagine it > might be good and bad in different ways. I saw some "interesting" > performance profiles for MapReduce where it performed better in some cases > and worse in others and I would expect the same for BigTable access > patterns. I think in Accumulo you might see things like compactions speed > up significantly (if they don't happen all at once), as single file > throughput of a beefy isilon is significantly better than a single drive, > and also behind the scenes Isilon doesn't do 3x replication (it does as > raid-5-like striping across nodes). > > -Don > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MapR works. >> >> I have a three node cluster with MapR running on my laptop and larger ones >> at work. >> >> Phil >> >> > I tried Accumulo on QFS today. It can be a drop-in replacement for >> HDFS. >> > >> > http://quantcast.github.io/qfs/ >> > >> > >> > I sent a note to the QFS dev team on my results. >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qfs-devel/VT9ROYrn1tg >> > >> > >> > QFS was very easy to start and play with. Hopefully someone will answer >> > my >> > questions and we can have another file system option (MapR should >> already >> > work). >> > >> > -Eric >> > >> >> >> > >
