Why Does Cloudera *Really* Use HDFS?  Apparently, someone in
Hadoop-land is getting worried about alternatives to HDFS, and
has decided to address that fear via social media instead of
code. Two days ago we had Daniel Abadi casting aspersions on
Hadoop adapters. Today we have Charles Zedlewski explaining why
Cloudera uses HDFS. He mentions a recent GigaOm article listing
eight alternatives, and manages to come up with a couple more,
but still manages to miss at least one. (Hint: what site are you
reading right now?) He also makes a really weird comparison to
the history of Linux, as though HDFS is the only option that’s
open and hardware agnostic. What crap. Practically all of the
alternatives share those qualities. He also makes some other
misleading claims on HDFS’s behalf.  it has excellent … high
availability (that’s right folks, drop the SPOF claims, you can
download CDH4 here!)  That’s right, folks. After years of
denying that the NameNode SPOF mattered, then more time wasted
trying to push the problem