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Streaming data access in HDFS: Design Feature

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Can anyone please explain what we mean by STREAMING DATA ACCESS IN HDFS.

Data is usually copied to HDFS and in HDFS the data is splitted across DataNodes in blocks.
Say for example, I have an input file of 10240 MB(10 GB) in size and a block size of 64 MB. Then there will be 160 blocks.

These blocks will be distributed across DataNodes in blocks. Now the Mappers will read data from these DataNodes keeping the DATA LOCALITY FEATURE in mind(i.e. blocks local to a DataNode will be read by the map tasks running in that DataNode).

Can you please point me where is the "Streaming data access in HDFS" is coming into picture here?

posted Mar 5, 2014 by Abhay Kulkarni

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Streaming means process it as its coming to HDFS, like where in hadoop this hadoop streaming enable hadoop to receive data using executable of different types.

I hope you have already read this:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.18.1/streaming.html#Hadoop+Streaming

answer Mar 5, 2014 by anonymous
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