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Alluxio

Data orchestration layer that sits between compute engines and storage systems, caching data for faster, unified access across the two.

Overview

Alluxio sits between compute frameworks (like Spark or Trino) and one or more underlying storage systems (S3, HDFS, and others), presenting a unified namespace and caching frequently accessed data in memory or on fast local disks to speed up analytics workloads without moving the underlying data. It decouples compute from storage location.

Alluxio is a fit for data platform teams running analytics engines against remote or slow storage who want a caching and unification layer, a distinct role from the object-storage systems (MinIO, SeaweedFS) already in this catalog - it sits in front of storage rather than being storage itself.

Categories
Storage
Keywords
data-orchestrationcaching-layerbig-dataunified-namespace
Languages
Java
License
Apache-2.0

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