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Glusterfs and Tachyon

Gluster
2014-08-07

Tachyon, an in-memory distributed filesystem, is among the most dynamic projects in big data analytics stack. It provides java io like API, support Apache Spark, and vastly improves Spark’s performance under large data set.

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As illustrated in this paradigm, Tachyon retrieves data from underlying filesystems (HDFS, S3, Glusterfs, and Posix compliant filesystems), caches data in memory, and delivers the cached data to Spark, Hadoop, and other applications through its java io like API.

Glusterfs is the latest tenant in Tachyon’s underlying filesystems. Instruction of setting Glusterfs with Tachyon can be found here.

 

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