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File Systems & Storage
Memory-Centric Storage System
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Scalable Network File System
★ 4.0
pip install alluxioN/A — system package, install via package managerpip install alluxioN/A — system package, install via package managerPython data engineers use Alluxio to accelerate PySpark pipelines that repeatedly read the same S3 or HDFS data. By mounting S3 data into Alluxio's memory cache, subsequent Spark reads hit in-memory cache instead of object storage — reducing read latency from seconds to milliseconds for iterative ML training or repeated dashboard queries.
Python data engineers in HPC and on-premise environments use GlusterFS as a shared storage layer accessible by multiple pipeline worker nodes simultaneously. Python jobs write output files to a GlusterFS mount point, and other nodes in the cluster can immediately read those files without data movement — simplifying distributed batch processing without object storage dependencies.
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