Google File System Evolves, Hadoop To Follow 53
Christophe Bisciglia, Google's former infrastructure guru and current member of the Cloudera start-up team, has commented on Google's latest iteration on their GFS file system and deemed its features well within the evolutionary capabilities of open-source competitor Hadoop. "Details on Google's GFS2 are slim. After all, it's Google. But based on what he's read, Bisciglia calls the update 'the next logical iteration' of the original GFS, and he sees Hadoop eventually following in the (rather sketchy) footsteps left by his former employer. 'A lot of the things Google is talking about are very logical directions for Hadoop to go,' Bisciglia tells The Reg. 'One of the things I've been very happy to see repeatedly demonstrated is that Hadoop has been able to implement [new Google GFS and MapReduce] features in approximately the same order. This shows that the fundamentals of Hadoop are solid, that the fundamentals are based on the same principles that allowed Google's systems to scale over the years.'"
Re:Hadoop (Score:5, Informative)
So it looks like these are for "cloud computing" (Score:0, Informative)
Reading up on the different file systems Hadoop [wikipedia.org] and GFS [wikipedia.org], it appears these are used primarily for "cloud computing".
Is that correct?
Re:So it looks like these are for "cloud computing (Score:5, Informative)
If you want to be buzz-word compliant, then yes, kind of.
More to the point, GFS and HDFS are distributed file-systems that are designed to run on potentially very large clusters of commodity hardware. The potential applications are quite diverse. Hadoop itself involves more than just the file-system, but HDFS is really at the core of any application you would want to build with it. This list [apache.org] gives you a good idea of who uses Hadoop and for what purpose.