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Alluxio Interpreter for Apache Zeppelin

Alluxio is a memory-centric distributed storage system enabling reliable data sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks.

In a notebook, to enable the Alluxio interpreter, click on the Gear icon and select Alluxio.

In a paragraph, use %alluxio to select the Alluxio interpreter and then input all commands.

%alluxio
help

Tip : Use ( Ctrl + . ) for autocompletion.

The Alluxio interpreter accepts the following commands.

Be sure to have configured correctly the Alluxio interpreter, then open a new paragraph and type one of the above commands.

Below a simple example to show how to interact with Alluxio interpreter. Following steps are performed:

using sh interpreter a new text file is created on local machine
using Alluxio interpreter:
- is listed the content of the afs (Alluxio File System) root
- the file previously created is copied to afs
- is listed again the content of the afs root to check the existence of the new copied file
- is showed the content of the copied file (using the tail command)
- the file previously copied to afs is copied to local machine
using sh interpreter it's checked the existence of the new file copied from Alluxio and its content is showed