Outline of Distributed Storage Systems: HDFS, GlusterFS, OpenStack Swift, and Ceph
This article outlines the fundamental concepts and key issues of distributed storage, provides an overview of four open‑source distributed file systems—HDFS, GlusterFS, OpenStack Swift, and Ceph—and compares their functionalities, accompanied by illustrative slide images.
The material outline consists of three parts: (1) basic ideas and the problems of interest; (2) an overview of four open‑source distributed storage systems—HDFS, GlusterFS, OpenStack Swift, and Ceph; (3) a functional comparison of these four distributed file systems.
The article includes a series of slide images that visually present the concepts, system architectures, and comparison tables for the four storage solutions.
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