Title
The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conference Title
ISPASS 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Date of Presentation
5-27-2010
Abstract
Hadoop is a popular open-source implementation of MapReduce for the analysis of large datasets. To manage storage resources across the cluster, Hadoop uses a distributed user-level filesystem. This filesystem - HDFS - is written in Java and designed for portability across heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. This paper analyzes the performance of HDFS and uncovers several performance issues. First, architectural bottlenecks exist in the Hadoop implementation that result in inefficient HDFS usage due to delays in scheduling new MapReduce tasks. Second, portability limitations prevent the Java implementation from exploiting features of the native platform. Third, HDFS implicitly makes portability assumptions about how the native platform manages storage resources, even though native filesystems and I/O schedulers vary widely in design and behavior. This paper investigates the root causes of these performance bottlenecks in order to evaluate tradeoffs between portability and performance in the Hadoop distributed filesystem. ©2010 IEEE.
First Page
122
Last Page
133
DOI
10.1109/ISPASS.2010.5452045
Recommended Citation
Shafer, J.,
Rixner, S.,
&
Cox, A. L.
(2010).
The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance.
Paper presented at ISPASS 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/soecs-facpres/406
