Tag: hdfs

“Data Access as a Service” at Shopee: Using Alluxio to Accelerate Interactive Queries and Enhance Developer Experience with Flexible APIs

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Shopee is the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. In this blog, Tianbao Ding and Haoning Sun from Shopee’s data infrastructure team share their project on query acceleration and “Data Access as a Service.” They describe how Shopee leverages Alluxio to improve Trino query performance by ~55% and how Alluxio enhances developer experience by providing … Continued

Achieving Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture With Application Portability

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A Fortune 50 technology company that serves over 1 billion users successfully implemented Alluxio to achieve a hybrid cloud strategy, become multi-cloud ready, cut costs, and boost agility. This case study highlights: This tech giant’s cloud journey to modernize its data platform and the challenges it faces Why this company chose Alluxio to achieve hybrid … Continued

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Alluxio and Apache Ranger Best Practices

As data stewards and security teams provide broader access to their organization’s data lake environments, having a centralized way to manage fine-grained access policies becomes increasingly important. Learn how Alluxio can use Apache Ranger’s centralized access policies in two ways.

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What’s New in Alluxio 2.8: Enhanced S3 API Functionality, Enterprise-grade Security and Data Migration With Better Usability and Low Cost

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The Alluxio 2.8 version focuses on the S3 API, enterprise-grade security, scalability and observability in data migration. Enhanced S3 API makes managing Alluxio easier than ever. Features such as encryption at rest and policy-driven data management further improve Alluxio’s functionality to support enterprise customers. 

Data Consistency Model in Alluxio

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When applications are only reading and writing through Alluxio, the Alluxio file system provides strong consistency. However, when clients are writing data across both Alluxio and under storage, the consistency depends on the Alluxio write type and under storage type. This article discusses what to expect in each scenario.