Filesystem Interfaces to NoSQL Solutions

Filesystem Interfaces to NoSQL Solutions: "

Sounds like it is becoming a trend. So far we have:

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  ☞ RiakFS for Riak


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  ☞ CassFS for Cassandra


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  ☞ VoldFS for Project Voldemort

Jeff Darcy explains why having a filesystem interface to NoSQL storage can make sense:

Voldemort is pretty easy to use, but providing a filesystem interface makes it possible for even “naive” programs that know nothing about Voldemort to access data stored there. It also provides things like directories, UNIX-style owners and groups, and byte-level access to arbitrarily large files. Lastly, it handles some common contention/consistency issues in what I hope is a useful way, instead of requiring the application to deal with those issues itself.

— ☞ pl.atyp.us

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