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What is throughput? How does HDFS provides good throughput?

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Throughput is the amount of work done in a unit time. HDFS provides good throughput because:

The HDFS is based on Write Once and Read Many Model, it simplifies the data coherency issues as the data written once can’t be modified and therefore, provides high throughput data access.

In Hadoop, the computation part is moved towards the data which reduces the network congestion and therefore, enhances the overall system throughput.

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