Introduction to HDFS

Hadoop distribute file system (HDFS) is a distributed file system with high fault tolerance. HDFS supports data access with high throughput and applies to processing of large data sets.

HDFS applies to the following application scenarios:

Massive data processing (higher than the TB or PB level).
Scenarios that require high throughput.
Scenarios that require high reliability.
Scenarios that require good scalability.

Introduction to HDFS Interface

HDFS can be developed by using Java language. For details of API reference, see Java API.

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