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Abstract

As we know data and information is exponentially increasing in current era therefore the technology like Hadoop, Cassandra File System, HBase etc. became the hot technology and preferred choice among the IT professionals and business communities. Hadoop Distributed File System and Cassandra File System is rapidly growing and proving themselves to be cutting edge technology in dealing with huge amount of structured and unstructured data. Both HDFS and CFS are open source software which comes under umbrella of Apache. Both technologies have large customer base which is exponentially growing and have certain pros and cons .Since both the file system are very popular and extensively been used in the areas of handling big data hence it is worth to do a comparison between both the technologies and helping the intended reader in selecting appropriate file system which efficiently meets the requirement of the customer. Paper covers about HDFS and CFS and then provides the comparative analysis of features provided by both the file systems.