Cassandra File System Design | DatastaxThe Cassandra File System (CFS) is an HDFS compatible filesystem built to replace the traditional Hadoop NameNode, Secondary NameNode and DataNode daemons. It is the foundation of our Hadoop support in DataStax Enterprise. The main design goals for the Cassandra File System were to first, simplify the operational overhead of Hadoop by removing the single points of failure in the Hadoop NameNode. S
