
HDFS-Hadoop Distributed FileSystem is the primary storage of Hadoop. It is designed for storing very large files running on a cluster of commodity hardware. HDFS works on the principle of storage of less number of large files rather than the huge number of small files. It stores data reliably even in the case of hardware failure. It provides high throughput access to the application by accessing in parallel.
Components of HDFS are:
NameNode-...