Scalability of the Hadoop Distributed File System (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)The bottom line is that we achieved the target in Petabytes and got close to the target in the number of files. But this is done with a smaller number of nodes and the need to support a workload close to 100,000 clients has not yet materialized. The question now is whether the goals are feasible with the current system architecture. Namespace Limitations HDFS is based on an architecture where the
