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Modern NewSQL database systems can be used to store fully normalized metadata for distributed hierarchical file systems, and provide high throughput and low operational latencies for the file system operations.
Introduction
For many years, researchers have investigated the use of database technology to manage file system metadata, with the goal of providing extensible typed metadata and support for fast, rich metadata search. However, previous attempts failed mainly due to the reduced performance introduced by adding database operations to the file system’s critical path. However, recent improvements in the performance of distributed in-memory online transaction processing databases (NewSQL databases) led us to reinvestigate the possibility of using a database to manage file system metadata, but this time for a distributed, hierarchical file system, the Hadoop file system (HDFS). The single-host metadata service of HDFS is a well-known bottleneck for both the size of HDFS...
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Niazi, S., Ismail, M., Haridi, S., Dowling, J. (2018). HopsFS: Scaling Hierarchical File System Metadata Using NewSQL Databases. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_146-1
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