Application Scenarios

Hadoop distribute file system (HDFS) runs on commodity hardware. It provides high error tolerance. In addition, it supports high data access throughput and is suitable for applications that involve large-scale data sets.

The HDFS is applicable to the following scenarios:

• Massive data processing (higher than the TB or PB level).
• High-throughput demanding scenarios.
• High-reliability demanding scenarios.
• Good-scalability demanding scenarios.

The HDFS is not applicable to the scenarios that involve a large number of small files, random write, and low-latency read.