Category Archives: Alluxio

Need for speed II: Using and testing Alluxio (formerly Tachyon)

In the last post we saw how to download and install Alluxio, along with some very basic tests. This time we will go on and see it in action. Alluxio by itself is just a storage system and it needs an application framework to run its applications. According to the documentation it can work with… Read More »

Need for speed: Introducing Alluxio (formerly Tachyon)

Alluxio is a very interesting and promising project (until few versions ago it was called Tachyon). It is a caching system that acts like a distributed storage that is kept entirely in memory. It is backed by an under storage system such as HDFS or Amazon S3 (it supports a bunch). Its API resembles the HDFS API… Read More »