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| HttpFS - Hadoop HDFS over HTTP |
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| HttpFS is a server that provides a REST HTTP gateway to HDFS with full |
| filesystem read & write capabilities. |
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| HttpFS can be used to transfer data between clusters running different |
| versions of Hadoop (overcoming RPC versioning issues), for example using |
| Hadoop DistCP. |
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| HttpFS can be used to access data in HDFS on a cluster behind of a firewall |
| (the HttpFS server acts as a gateway and is the only system that is allowed |
| to cross the firewall into the cluster). |
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| HttpFS can be used to access data in HDFS using HTTP utilities (such as curl |
| and wget) and HTTP libraries Perl from other languages than Java. |
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