Hadoop Distributed File System and Google File System

Learn what GFS and HDFS are. Look into the requirements and the architecture of GFS.

Google File System (GFS)S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S.-T. Leung, “The Google File System,” Symposium on Operating Systems Principles ’03, 2003. is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google. It is also the inspiration for the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), a distributed file system developed as an Apache project.

Note: The basic design principles are similar for these two systems, with some small differences.

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