Yahoo! Hadoop grid makes use of a managed service to get the data pulled into the clusters. However, when it comes to getting the data-out of the clusters, the choices are limited to proxies such as HDFSProxy and HTTPProxy. With the introduction of HCatalog services, customers of the grid now have their data represented in a central metadata repository. HCatalog abstracts out file locations and un

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