What is HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System?



What is HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System?..

Answer / Priti Vishnoi

HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a distributed file system designed to store large amounts of data across multiple commodity computers. It provides high throughput access to application data and is suitable for applications that have large data size and require high bandwidth.

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