Do you need an in-memory file system for your use case or you need a
technology like Ignite (in-memory data grid and in-memory database use
cases)? If you are looking for the former than check out Alluxio, if you'd
like to use Ignite to offload Hadoop and have issues with latencies then
Ignite can help but with a different architecture.

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Denis


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:14 AM maros.urbanec <maros.urba...@nokia.com>
wrote:

> Hi all, I've been recently looking into Ignite Filesystem (IGFS for short)
> and couldn't find much assistance by Google searches.
>
> Reading the documentation, it wasn't immediately obvious whether IGFS as a
> cache for HDFS is an option or a must. In other words - is it possible to
> use IGFS without Hadoop or any other secondary file stores; storing files
> in
> Ignite cache only?
>
> Secondarily, I've tried to start Ignite with
> examples\config\filesystem\example-igfs.xml configuration, only for Java
> client to obstinately claim "IGFS is not configured: igfs". The
> configuration is being read by Ignite, since enabling shared memory
> endpoint
> end up in error (I'm running on Windows). Is there any step I'm missing?
>
> As a last question - there is no C++ API for IGFS at this point. However, a
> recurring talk on these mailing lists is an integration of IGFS as a
> userspace filesystem. Is this item stipulated on a roadmap?
>
>
>
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