HDFS is optimized for large files. The scalability of the single HDFS namenode is limited by the number of files. It is hard for HDFS to store lots of small files.
SeaweedFS excels on small files and has no issue to store large files. Now it is possible to enable Hadoop jobs to read from and write to SeaweedFS.
Build SeaweedFS Hadoop Client Jar
$cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/other/java/client
$ mvn install
# build for hadoop2
$cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/other/java/hdfs2
$ mvn package
$ ls -al target/seaweedfs-hadoop2-client-3.80.jar
# build for hadoop3
$cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/other/java/hdfs3
$ mvn package
$ ls -al target/seaweedfs-hadoop3-client-3.80.jar
Maven
<dependency>
<groupId>com.seaweedfs</groupId>
<artifactId>seaweedfs-hadoop3-client</artifactId>
<version>3.80</version>
</dependency>
or
<dependency>
<groupId>com.seaweedfs</groupId>
<artifactId>seaweedfs-hadoop2-client</artifactId>
<version>3.80</version>
</dependency>
Or you can download the latest version from MavenCentral
- https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.seaweedfs/seaweedfs-hadoop2-client/versions
- https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.seaweedfs/seaweedfs-hadoop3-client/versions
Test SeaweedFS on Hadoop
Suppose you are getting a new Hadoop installation. Here are the minimum steps to get SeaweedFS to run.
You would need to start a weed filer first, build the seaweedfs-hadoop2-client-3.80.jar or seaweedfs-hadoop3-client-3.80.jar, and do the following:
# optionally adjust hadoop memory allocation
$ export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Xmx4g"
$ cd ${HADOOP_HOME}
# create etc/hadoop/mapred-site.xml, just to satisfy hdfs dfs. skip this if the file already exists.
$ echo "<configuration></configuration>" > etc/hadoop/mapred-site.xml
# on hadoop2
$ bin/hdfs dfs -Dfs.defaultFS=seaweedfs://localhost:8888 \
-Dfs.seaweedfs.impl=seaweed.hdfs.SeaweedFileSystem \
-libjars ./seaweedfs-hadoop2-client-3.80.jar \
-ls /
# or on hadoop3
$ bin/hdfs dfs -Dfs.defaultFS=seaweedfs://localhost:8888 \
-Dfs.seaweedfs.impl=seaweed.hdfs.SeaweedFileSystem \
-libjars ./seaweedfs-hadoop3-client-3.80.jar \
-ls /
Both reads and writes are working fine.
Installation for Hadoop
- Configure Hadoop to use SeaweedFS in
etc/hadoop/conf/core-site.xml
.core-site.xml
resides on each node in the Hadoop cluster. You must add the same properties to each instance ofcore-site.xml
. There are several properties to modify:fs.seaweedfs.impl
: This property defines the Seaweed HCFS implementation classes that are contained in the SeaweedFS HDFS client JAR. It is required.fs.defaultFS
: This property defines the default file system URI to use. It is optional if a path always has prefixseaweedfs://localhost:8888
.fs.AbstractFileSystem.seaweedfs.impl
: Add the SeaweedFS implementation of Hadoop AbstractFileSystem to delegates to the existing SeaweedFS FileSystem and is only necessary for use with Hadoop 3.x.fs.seaweed.buffer.size
: Optionally change the default buffer size 4194304 to a larger number. It will be the default chunk size.fs.seaweed.volume.server.access
:[direct|publicUrl|filerProxy]
Optionally access volume servers via their publicUrl settings, or use filer as a proxy. This is useful when volume servers are inside a cluster and not directly accessible.
<configuration>
<property>
<name>fs.seaweedfs.impl</name>
<value>seaweed.hdfs.SeaweedFileSystem</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>fs.defaultFS</name>
<value>seaweedfs://localhost:8888</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>fs.AbstractFileSystem.seaweedfs.impl</name>
<value>seaweed.hdfs.SeaweedAbstractFileSystem</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>fs.seaweed.buffer.size</name>
<value>4194304</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>fs.seaweed.volume.server.access</name>
<!-- [direct|publicUrl|filerProxy] -->
<value>direct</value>
</property>
</configuration>
- Deploy the SeaweedFS HDFS client jar
# Run the classpath command to get the list of directories in the classpath
$ bin/hadoop classpath
# Copy SeaweedFS HDFS client jar to one of the folders
$ cd ${HADOOP_HOME}
# for hadoop2
$ cp ./seaweedfs-hadoop2-client-3.80.jar share/hadoop/common/lib/
# or for hadoop3
$ cp ./seaweedfs-hadoop3-client-3.80.jar share/hadoop/common/lib/
Now you can do this:
$ cd ${HADOOP_HOME}
$ bin/hdfs dfs -ls /
# if you did not set fs.defaultFS in etc/hadoop/core-site.xml
# or you want to access a different SeaweedFS filer
$ bin/hdfs dfs -ls seaweedfs://localhost:8888/
Supported HDFS Operations
bin/hdfs dfs -appendToFile README.txt /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -cat /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -rm -r /uber
bin/hdfs dfs -chown -R chris:chris /weedfs
bin/hdfs dfs -chmod -R 755 /weedfs
bin/hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal README.txt /weedfs/README.txt.2
bin/hdfs dfs -copyToLocal /weedfs/README.txt.2 .
bin/hdfs dfs -count /weedfs/README.txt.2
bin/hdfs dfs -cp /weedfs/README.txt.2 /weedfs/README.txt.3
bin/hdfs dfs -du -h /weedfs
bin/hdfs dfs -find /weedfs -name "*.txt" -print
bin/hdfs dfs -get /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -getfacl /weedfs
bin/hdfs dfs -getmerge -nl /weedfs w.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -ls /
bin/hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp
bin/hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /tmp/x/y
bin/hdfs dfs -moveFromLocal README.txt.2 /tmp/x/
bin/hdfs dfs -mv /tmp/x/y/README.txt.2 /tmp/x/y/README.txt.3
bin/hdfs dfs -mv /tmp/x /tmp/z
bin/hdfs dfs -put README.txt /tmp/z/y/
bin/hdfs dfs -rm /tmp/z/y/*
bin/hdfs dfs -rmdir /tmp/z/y
bin/hdfs dfs -stat /weedfs
bin/hdfs dfs -tail /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -test -f /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -text /weedfs/weedfs.txt
bin/hdfs dfs -touchz /weedfs/weedfs.txtx
Operations Plan to Support
getfattr
setfacl
setfattr
truncate
createSnapshot
deleteSnapshot
renameSnapshot
setrep
Notes
Atomicity
SeaweedFS satisfies the HCFS requirements that the following operations to be atomic, when using MySql/Postgres/Sqlite database transactions.
- Creating a file. If the overwrite parameter is false, the check and creation MUST be atomic.
- Deleting a file.
- Renaming a file.
- Renaming a directory.
- Creating a single directory with mkdir().
Among these, except file or directory renaming, the following operations are all atomic for any filer store.
- Creating a file
- Deleting a file
- Creating a single directory with mkdir().
No native shared libraries
The SeaweedFS hadoop client is a pure java library. There are no native libraries to install if you already have Hadoop running.
This is different from many other HCFS options. If native shared libraries are needed, these libraries need to be install on all hadoop nodes. This is quite some task.
Shaded Fat Jar
One of the headache with complicated Java systems is the jar runtime dependency problem, which is resolved by Go's build time dependency resolution. For this SeaweedFS hadoop client, the required jars are mostly shaded and packaged as one fat jar, so there are no extra jar files needed.
Note
use -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
if possible, see https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/6454
error message:
Failed construction of Master: class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMasterCommandLine$LocalHMasterConnection refused: localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:18888
See Security-Configuration#for-java-grpc if you enabled gRpc security.
Failed construction of Master: class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMasterCommandLine$LocalHMasternot an SSL/TLS record: 000006040000000000000500004000
Introduction
API
Configuration
- Replication
- Store file with a Time To Live
- Failover Master Server
- Erasure coding for warm storage
- Server Startup Setup
- Environment Variables
Filer
- Filer Setup
- Directories and Files
- Data Structure for Large Files
- Filer Data Encryption
- Filer Commands and Operations
- Filer JWT Use
Filer Stores
- Filer Cassandra Setup
- Filer Redis Setup
- Super Large Directories
- Path-Specific Filer Store
- Choosing a Filer Store
- Customize Filer Store
Advanced Filer Configurations
- Migrate to Filer Store
- Add New Filer Store
- Filer Store Replication
- Filer Active Active cross cluster continuous synchronization
- Filer as a Key-Large-Value Store
- Path Specific Configuration
- Filer Change Data Capture
FUSE Mount
WebDAV
Cloud Drive
- Cloud Drive Benefits
- Cloud Drive Architecture
- Configure Remote Storage
- Mount Remote Storage
- Cache Remote Storage
- Cloud Drive Quick Setup
- Gateway to Remote Object Storage
AWS S3 API
- Amazon S3 API
- AWS CLI with SeaweedFS
- s3cmd with SeaweedFS
- rclone with SeaweedFS
- restic with SeaweedFS
- nodejs with Seaweed S3
- S3 API Benchmark
- S3 API FAQ
- S3 Bucket Quota
- S3 API Audit log
- S3 Nginx Proxy
- Docker Compose for S3
AWS IAM
Machine Learning
HDFS
- Hadoop Compatible File System
- run Spark on SeaweedFS
- run HBase on SeaweedFS
- run Presto on SeaweedFS
- Hadoop Benchmark
- HDFS via S3 connector
Replication and Backup
- Async Replication to another Filer [Deprecated]
- Async Backup
- Async Filer Metadata Backup
- Async Replication to Cloud [Deprecated]
- Kubernetes Backups and Recovery with K8up
Messaging
Use Cases
Operations
Advanced
- Large File Handling
- Optimization
- Volume Management
- Tiered Storage
- Cloud Tier
- Cloud Monitoring
- Load Command Line Options from a file
- SRV Service Discovery
- Volume Files Structure