Google File System

E185682
distributed file system proprietary software

Google File System is a distributed file system developed by Google to reliably store and process massive amounts of data across clusters of commodity hardware.

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Label Occurrences
Google File System canonical 4
The Google File System 2
Colossus distributed file system 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf distributed file system ⓘ
proprietary software ⓘ
alsoKnownAs GFS ⓘ
architectureFeature multiple chunkservers ⓘ
single master server ⓘ
chunkSize 64 MB ⓘ
consistencyModel relaxed consistency ⓘ
designedBy Google engineers ⓘ
designedFor clusters of commodity hardware ⓘ
large-scale data-intensive applications ⓘ
developer Google ⓘ
ensuresReliabilityBy replicating chunks across multiple servers ⓘ
faultToleranceMechanism master state recovery from operation log ⓘ
replication of chunk data ⓘ
handles frequent component failures ⓘ
influenced design of modern distributed file systems ⓘ
inspired HDFS ⓘ
surface form: Hadoop Distributed File System
license closed source ⓘ
masterDataStructure in-memory metadata ⓘ
masterPersistence operation log and checkpoints ⓘ
optimizedFor appending writes ⓘ
large streaming reads ⓘ
paperAbbreviation SOSP 2003 ⓘ
paperAuthors Howard Gobioff ⓘ
Sanjay Ghemawat ⓘ
Shun-Tak Leung ⓘ
paperPublicationYear 2003 ⓘ
paperPublishedIn SOSP ⓘ
surface form: ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
paperTitle Google File System self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Google File System
stores access control information ⓘ
file namespace ⓘ
locations of chunk replicas ⓘ
mapping from files to chunks ⓘ
storesFileDataOn chunkservers ⓘ
storesMetadataOn master server ⓘ
supports data replication ⓘ
fault tolerance ⓘ
high throughput ⓘ
scalability ⓘ
supportsOperation record append ⓘ
snapshot ⓘ
targetEnvironment Google production clusters ⓘ
usedFor indexing web pages ⓘ
large-scale data processing at Google ⓘ
uses heartbeat messages between master and chunkservers ⓘ
large fixed-size chunks ⓘ
leases for mutation control ⓘ
version numbers for chunk management ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hadoop → initiallyInspiredBy → Google File System ⓘ
Jeffrey Dean → knownFor → Google File System ⓘ
Jeffrey Dean → workedOn → Google File System ⓘ
this entity surface form: Google File System (GFS)
Jeffrey Dean → coAuthorOf → Google File System ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Google File System
Bigtable → basedOn → Google File System ⓘ
MapReduce → commonlyUsedWith → Google File System ⓘ
Google File System → paperTitle → Google File System self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Google File System
Google infrastructure → hasComponent → Google File System ⓘ
this entity surface form: Colossus distributed file system