Kudu Might Be Invasive: Cloudera Breaks Out Of HDFS

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

For the IT crowd just now getting to used to the idea of big data’s HDFS (Hadoop’s Distributed File System) and it’s peculiarities, there is another alternative open source big data file system coming from Cloudera called Kudu. Like HDFS, Kudu is designed to be hosted across a scale-out cluster of commodity systems, but specifically intended to support more low-latency analytics.

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