The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the ...

As mentioned earlier, databases and file systems (including HDFS) have played a role in data warehousing and data lake implementations. There are also object stores for on-premises implementations and ...

Google Cloud Storage, called Colossus, is a RESTful service for storing and accessing data objects stored on Google’s infrastructure. Changing a Google Hadoop instance to use Colossus is a simple ...