While Cleversafe seeks to liberate data specialists form the tyranny of the HDFS namenode, Jaspersoft seeks to do likewise for end-users with respect to original data sources.

But deploying Raid in large HDFS clusters with hundreds of petabytes of data presents a lot of challenges. “We wanted to share the lessons we learned along the way,” Facebook engineers said on ...

The shared-nothing architecture used by GPFS-FPO also provides greater resilience than HDFS by allowing each node to operate independently, reducing the impact of failure events across multiple nodes.