The Hadoop file system, HDFS, has been under a lot of fire over the last year as various corners of the industry have maligned the file system for some of its perceived limitations. Big data pioneer ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is ...

News. Google Eliminates Need for HDFS in its Big Data Cloud Platform. By David Ramel; January 16, 2014; Google this week announced a Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop aiming to simplify Big ...

The cloudandthings.io team recently assisted a major banking client in modernising their on-premises Hadoop Data Platform. The team successfully migrated its HDFS storage to S3-compatible storage ...