Hadoop and big data go hand in hand, however many companies feel Hadoop comes up short on certain enterprise features they need. StoneFly’s Scale-Out NAS Storage offers an enterprise-grade alternative to the underlying Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) that enables you to keep data in a POSIX compatible storage environment while performing big data analytics with a Hadoop MapReduce Framework.
To overcome the traditional limitations of hardware-based storage, StoneFly™ has created an HDFS plug-in that enables MapReduce to run directly on StoneFly’s Scale-Out NAS Storage. This plugin uses Scale-Out NAS Storage volumes to run Hadoop jobs across multiple namespaces, allowing you to perform in-place analytics without migrating data in or out of HDFS.

Integrating the plugin into the Hadoop ecosystem goes well beyond MapReduce and HDFS. The Hadoop plug-in is compatible with Hadoop-based applications and supports technologies such as Hive, Pig HBase, Tez, Sqoop, Flume and more!
In this example we see four Scale-Out NAS Storage servers in a trusted storage pool, split between two zones for high-availability. A separate server runs the “Ambari” management console, the “Yarn Resource Manager” and the “Job History Server”. This architecture eliminates the centralized metadata server and supports a fully fault-tolerant system with two or three way replication across a cluster that can scale anywhere from 2 to 128 nodes.






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