Sector/Sphere
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Sector/Sphere is an open source software suite for high-performance distributed data storage and processing. It can be broadly compared to Google's GFS and MapReduce technology. Sector is a distributed file system targeting data storage over a large number of commodity computers. Sphere is the programming architecture framework that supports in-storage parallel data processing for data stored in Sector. Sector/Sphere operates in a wide area network (WAN) setting.
Quick Facts Developer(s), Stable release ...
Developer(s) | The Sector Alliance |
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Stable release | 2.8
/ October 8, 2012 (2012-10-08) |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Linux / Windows |
Type | Distributed File System |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | sector |
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The system was created by Yunhong Gu (the author of UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol) in 2006 and was then maintained by a group of other developers.