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If you needed something Colossus-like in the open source world, what would you use? Is there anything available that's better than HDFS for the "general-purpose
by alexhutcheson 8y ago
If you needed something Colossus-like in the open source world, what would you use? Is there anything available that's better than HDFS for the "general-purpose, big, distributed file system" use-case?
- puzzle 8y agoCeph?
- q3k 8y agoCeph. Although it's slightly upside down with it's block / objects semantics (and as such, you don't exactly get the namespaced append-only semantics of Colossus), and doesn't depend on an excellent separate BigTable-like and Chubby-like layer underneath, instead rolling their own.