JD Retail’s Unified HDFS Storage: Cross‑Region and Hierarchical Storage Practices
This article details JD Retail’s large‑scale HDFS deployment, describing how cross‑region storage challenges were solved with a full‑copy topology, asynchronous block replication, flow‑control mechanisms, and a tiered storage strategy that automatically moves hot, warm, and cold data among SSD, HDD, and high‑density HDD nodes to improve performance and cut costs.