It is the nature of big data that it tends to become bigger,
with hardware and operating costs scaling to match, quickly
into the millions for many organizations. By reducing disk
space requirements by 50%, QFS offers data-bound organizations
dramatically better economics. It allows them to
squeeze twice as much data into their existing hardware, to
put off their next data center expansion for a year or two,
and to spend half as much when they finally do expand.
QFS integrates easily with Hadoop but does not require
it and may provide a benefit in environments that read and
write large, sequential blocks of data through other means.
As an open-source project, it’s free of license fees that could
undermine its economics and is positioned to benefit from
community scrutiny and collaboration. It has also been