Introduction to HDFS

Updated on 2022-09-14 GMT+08:00

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HDFS

Hadoop distribute file system (HDFS) is a distributed file system with high fault tolerance running on universal hardware. HDFS supports data access with high throughput and applies to processing of large-scale 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 excellent scalability

HDFS APIs

HDFS applications can be developed using Java. For details about APIs, see Java APIs.

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