NoSQL: Performance advantages of the new Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop

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Performance advantages of the new Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop

This guest post by Mike Wendt from Accenture Technology provides some very good answers to the questions I had about the recently announced Hadoop connector for Google Cloud Storage : how does it behave compared to local storage (data locality), what the performance of accessing Google Cloud Storage directly from Hadoop, and, last but essential for cloud setups, what are the cost implications:

tags:hadoop,gcp,mapreduce,bigdata

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