Sequence files, map files, and Avro datafiles are all row-oriented file formats, which means that the values for each row…
Serialization is the process of turning structured objects into a byte stream for transmission over a network or for writing…
File compression brings two major benefits: it reduces the space needed to store files, and it speeds up data transfer…
HDFS transparently checksums all data written to it and by default verifies checksums when reading data. Datanodes are responsible for…
A coherency model for a filesystem describes the data visibility of reads and writes for a file. HDFS trades off…
File Read in Hdfs 1. The client opens the file it wishes to read by calling open() on the FileSystem…
Hadoop has an abstract notion of filesystems, of which HDFS is just one implementation. The Java abstract class org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem represents…