15 | | * [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hadoop] is inspired by the Google File System and mapreduce, is supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers. |
| 11 | * [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hadoop] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives). |
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| 13 | * [http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ mogilefs] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made [http://livejournal.com LiveJournal]. The name is an anagram for "OMG files". |
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| 15 | * [http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/ Kosmos Distributed File System] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop. |
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| 17 | = Interesting Vaporware = |
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| 19 | * [http://fluidinfo.com/ fluidinfo] is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage. The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms. Here's [http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf his PhD thesis]. He also contributes to the Twisted Python project. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code. |
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