The scientists at CERN use HDFS for storing their large data sets and don't use MapReduce at all. (I believe most of their applications are MPI.) At Yahoo, some users run non-MapReduce in the shared MapReduce cluster.
-- Owen On Jul 16, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I use hdfs to store very large files and access them thru various client > (100 clients) using FS utils. Are there any other tools or projects that > solely use hdfs as its storage for fast access? I know hbase uses it but > requires mapreduce. I want to know only hdfs without mapreduce. > > > > -- > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
