Hadoop & HDFS Architecture Presentation By
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What is HDFS?
Hadoop comes with a distributed filesystem called HDFS, which stands for Hadoop distributed filesystem.
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What actually a distributed filesystem? 
When a dataset outgrows the storage capacity of a single physical machine, it becomes necessary to partition it across a number of separate machines.
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Filesystems that manage the storage across a network of machines are called distributed filesystems. http://ravinamboori.net
Design of HDFS: Very
large files
Streaming
data access
Commodity
hardware
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Where HDFS Is Not A Good Fit Low-latency
data access Lots of small files Multiple writers, arbitrary file modifications
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HDFS Architecture An HDFS cluster consists of a single NameNode, a master server that manages the file system namespace and regulates access to files by clients. It also consist of secondary namenode. It updates the namespace image with datalog. http://ravinamboori.net
Why Is a Block in HDFS So Large?
HDFS blocks are large compared to disk blocks, and the reason is to minimize the cost of seeks.
By making a block large enough, the time to transfer the data from the disk can be made to be significantly larger than the time to seek to the start of the block.
Thus the time to transfer a large file made of multiple blocks operates at the disk transfer rate.
Advantage of HDFS? “Moving Computation is Cheaper than Moving Data"
A computation requested by an application is much more efficient if it is executed near the data it operates on. This is especially true when the size of the data set is huge. HDFS provides interfaces for applications to move themselves closer to where the data is located.
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