Hadoop is like MogileFS, is a Open Source distributed file system.
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/
Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named Map/Reduce, where the application is divided into many small fragments of work, [...]

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MogileFS is our open source distributed filesystem.
http://danga.com/mogilefs/
Some of the advantages are

No Single point Failure
Automatic file replication
Better than RAID
Shared-Nothing — MogileFS doesn’t depend on a pricey SAN with shared disks. Every machine maintains its own local disks.
No RAID required — Local disks on MogileFS storage nodes can be in a RAID, or not. It’s cheaper not [...]

Tags: distributed filesystem, MogileFS, raid, scaling

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