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Can anyone tell me what is HDFS?

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The HDFS, Hadoop Distributed File System is developed using a distributed file system design. This is the main data storage system used by Hadoop applications

Features of HDFS:

  • Primarly suitable for distributed storage and data processing.
  • It has command interface to interact with Hadoop Distributed File System.
  • The built-in servers of the name node and data node allow the users to monitor the status of the cluster easily.
  • Streaming access to file system data.
  • HDFS provides file permissions and authentication. 

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