But are people going to access only one block? Big Data itself implies processing of thousands of blocks. So why would the faster access of one single block matter? ... View more

In the manual installation as cited in my first post, where is the HDP part? It all seems to be the installation/setup of only Apache Hadoop and its suite of products (HDFS, MR, YARN, Zookeeper, HBASE, HIVE etc) ie I don't see anything really different from a standard Apache Hadoop install/setup. In that manual installation sequence I don't see any install of Ambari either. What is Hortonworks about the manual installation? Appreciate the clarification. ... View more

BTW what is the actual advantage of a co-located client? It only stores the first block of the file at the client/datanode right? The rest of the blocks are distributed across the HDFS. So what is the big advantage of storing the first block? Does that really help performance? Appreciate the insights. ... View more

Thanks Binu. ... View more

So what is required for the edge node to connect to the cluster : hadoop software, core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml, ... and what else ? Appreciate the clarification. ... View more

Hello, any response on whether the 'edge node' is a datanode? Appreciate the feedback. ... View more

If moving files into hdfs from datanode will not prevent distribution then when does co-located client dynamic work? Also is the edge node that you mention a datanode? If not is it simply a machine with hadoop software to facilitate interaction with hdfs? Appreciate the feedback. ... View more