4 engineers on Hacker News describe using HDFS first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“HDFS is rarely the answer, mainly due to pains usually involving crashed nameservers.”
regret · production · p_l · 2016-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to it to Parquet on HDFS and did some (ok, a lot...)performance tuning and exactly the same processing ended up at 6 seconds.”
neutral · production · nl · 2020-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we run Hive on our main HDFS cluster without limiting mappers and reducers”
neutral · production · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2016-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?