Scalable distributed file system for blobs like images and other documents

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Published on 2011-10-12T07:18:13Z Indexed on 2012/10/30 23:19 UTC
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Cassandra & HBase both do not efficiently support storage of blobs like images. Storing directly on HDFS stresses the Namenode because of huge number of files. Facebook uses Haystack for images and attachments storage, but this is not open source. So is Lustre a good choice for distributed blob storage? I have read that Amazon S3 is used by many, but this would cost money and personally, I would not like to rely on third party system. What are other suggestions?

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