Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), are primarily designed for large datasets and are often burdened by the metadata overhead when managing vast numbers of small files.

The Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop is available immediately at no additional charge to Cluster File System customers. It supports Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 and Apache Hadoop 1.0.2.

Retirements of 13 big data-related Apache projects -- including Sentry, Tajo and Falcon -- have been announced in 11 days. It looks like the idealistic days of Hadoop and big data are officially over.

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