HDFS

Is there a story for the Hadoop Storage Stack (HDFS+HBase) on Solid State Drive (SSD) ? This is a question that I have been asked by quite...

Recently, I was asked to write up about my vision of a BigData Benchmark. That begs the question: What is BigData ? Does it refer to a datas...

I had earlier blogged about why Facebook is starting to use Apache Hadoop technologies to serve realtime workloads . We presented the paper...

This is the second part of our SIGMOD-2011 paper that describes our use case for Apache Hadoop and Apache HBase in realtime workloads. Yo...

Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. It uses HDFS and ...

Many people have asked me to describe the best practices that we have adopted to run a multi PB data warehouse using Hadoop. Most of the det...

Recently, I visited a few premier educational institutes in India, e.g. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Delhi and Guwahati. Most of...