Many industry observers seem to assume (but rarely state outright) that Hadoop is HDFS and HDFS is Hadoop.

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Now that HDFS is being used in new ways, it must become faster.

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HDFS, the Hadoop File System, was not created to support wide use of the data inside it by existing techniques.

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Namely, it has contributed enhancements to HDFS, YARN, HBase and Hive projects.

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While Harley is showing much needed signs of strengthening, particularly as it relates to HDFS, we think that the valuation has become too rich.

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The obvious star of the quarter was strength out of the HDFS unit which had been a major drag on results as the recession deepened.

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MapR from the beginning chose to use Hadoop as a platform and to extend it in ways that make it much more useful to the enterprise, such as exposing HDFS through NFS and fixing operational and reliability problems with the name node.

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