Tag: Alluxio
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Using Tiered Storage in Alluxio
Using Tiered Storage in Alluxio Introduction Alluxio is an open source memory speed virtual distributed storage system. A brief overview of Alluxio has been covered in a previous blog. This post will cover one of the most powerful features of Alluxio, which is its tiered storage capabilities. Tiered storage allows the Alluxio volume to be
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Experiences of Using Alluxio with Spark
Experiences of Using Alluxio with Spark Introduction Alluxio refers to itself as an “Open Source Memory Speed Virtual Distributed Storage” platform. It sits between the storage and processing framework layers in the distributed computing ecosystem and claims to heavily improve performance when multiple jobs are reading/writing from/to the same data. This post will cover some