On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Bradford Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What sort of performance hit is there for using S3 vs. a local cluster?
In my experience on EC2 using Hadoop, S3-backed HDFS is 25-33% slower than disk-backed HDFS. That was using 0.14.x, however, so it might be better now... -- Toby DiPasquale