Hi, HDFS is just a FileSystem. You can use the FileSystem API to use it as you wish. No dependency with MR operation. One can use MR with other fileSystems also.
Cheers, Subroto Sanyal On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Matouk IFTISSEN wrote: > Hello, > Can we (other applications) use HDFS without invoking MapReduce operations? > > Thanks for your answers.
