Google File System
- Date
- 2003 · confidence medium
- Place
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Credited to
- Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff and Shun-Tak Leung
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A distributed file system designed by Google to provide reliable, efficient access to large amounts of data using clusters of commodity hardware.
What it led to
- Foundation for MapReduce and Bigtable at Google
- Direct inspiration for the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Advancement of large-scale distributed computing
- Internally superseded by Colossus in 2010