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Apr 4, 2017 · Big Data

Alluxio: Memory‑Centric Distributed File System for Big Data Storage and Compute

Alluxio, formerly Tachyon, is a memory‑centric distributed file system that unifies heterogeneous big‑data storage backends, optimizes small files, and provides a fast, unified data access layer between storage systems like S3 or HDFS and compute frameworks such as Spark or Hadoop.