Simple comparison Open source Distributed File system. HDFS vs MogileFS vs GlusterFSI recently had simple survey about open source distributed file system. 1. HDFS Platform: JavaSingle point of failure : Yes (Name node - which stores meta data)Scalability : Limited by number of file (Metadata is maintained in Memory of Name node. so it is completely up to size of memory of Name node). Yahoo scales it up to 4000 nodes (some PB).2M file roughly uses 2.4GB memory.Automatic Replicati
