- Scalability
- Horizontal (Add new nodes to the cluster)
- Vertical (Increase the performance of an single device)
- Distributed (Storage & Processing)
- Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)
- Data Availability
- Fault Tolerance
Features/ Characteristics (SDR)
- Sharding (Split file into small chunks)
- Default : 128MB
- WoRm (Write Once, Read Many)
- Once written Chunk size cannot be changed
- Distributed
- MPP
- Consistency & Availability (CAP Theorem)
- Replication Factor
- Default : 3 times
- Min : 1, Max : 512