Apache Hadoop is an open-source software library which integrates a wide variety of
software tools and utilities to facilitate the distributed batch processing of big data sets …

Recent technological advancements in the field of computing have been the cause of
voluminous generation of data which cannot be handled effectively by traditionally available …

As the era of “big data” comes, the data processing platform like Hadoop was born at the
right moment. But its carrier for storage, Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) has the great …

In today's computing era, the voluminous data that is generated every moment needs
special tools and techniques for its effective and efficient handling and storage. In this paper …

In this paper, we propose a distributed caching scheme to efficiently access small files in
Hadoop distributed file system. The proposed scheme reduces the volume of metadata to …

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) enables people to track objects by
deploying multiple sensors, eg, to track people in indoor spaces using RFID sensors. Multi …

Hadoop has been used widely for data analytic tasks in various domains. At the same time,
data volume is expected to grow even further in the next years. Hadoop recently introduced …

Object storage has been widely used in the cloud. Traditionally, the size of object metadata
is much smaller than that of object data, and thus existing object storage systems (such as …

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a storage system having at least first and
second storage tiers each comprising a plurality of storage devices. The storage system …

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a multi-tier storage system having at least a
front-end storage tier, a back-end storage tier and a data mover module configured to control …