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Re: Why can't Object Stores like Amazon S3 be used...

by New Contributor in Support Questions
‎08-07-2019 05:07 AM
‎08-07-2019 05:07 AM
Thanks @Josh Elser for your response. I did notice HBase Master failing to stay up when the cluster was using a Blob Store (Amazon S3 and DellEMC's ECS) as the default FileSystem, which might be because HBase needs HDFS to replicate WAL. Do you know of other services that would not work in such use case? ... View more

Why can't Object Stores like Amazon S3 be used as ...

by New Contributor in Support Questions
‎08-06-2019 06:41 PM
‎08-06-2019 06:41 PM
I've read https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.2/bk_cloud-data-access/content/intro.html where it is not recommended to use a cloud storage connector as the filesystem for HDFS. Can someone point out the reasoning for why these object stores can't be set as the defaultFS, which services wouldn't work/have issues, etc.? ... View more
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