HDFS or the Hadoop Distributed File System, is a Java-based filesystem for storing large volumes of data in the Hadoop framework. It solves the problem of storing and managing enormous amounts of data with it’s high scalability, fault-tolerance, high availability and cost efficiency that make it so popular.
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