HDFS: Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: The Complete Story

Linked on Jul 4 at 16:58

Facebook is now using Hadoop for realtime workloads, which is interesting in and of itself. (Cassandra was Facebook’s go-to for NoSQL data.) They’ve also extended Hadoop to make it a more effective realtime system. This white paper and slides detail why they chose Hadoop, what changes they made and what is left to be done.