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Resolving the Failure Issue of NameNode

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the previous blog “Smattering of HDFS“, we learnt that “The NameNode is a Single Point of Failure for the HDFS Cluster”. Each cluster had a single NameNode and if that machine became unavailable, the whole cluster would become unavailable until the NameNode is restarted or brought up on a different machine. Now in this blog, we will learn about resolving the failure issue of Continue Reading

Smattering of HDFS

Reading Time: 2 minutes INTRODUCTION TO HDFS :- Hadoop is an open-source framework that allows to store and process big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers.It has many similarities with existing distributed file systems. However, the differences from other distributed file systems are significant as it provides high-performance access to data across Hadoop clusters. Like other Hadoop-related technologies, HDFS has become a key tool for managing Continue Reading