CloudStore is Kosmix

Kosmix

Kosmix was an American privately held company in Mountain View, California. Their website earned revenue from advertising related to its categorization engine. The engine organizes the Internet into topic pages allowing users to explore the Web by topic, "presenting a dashboard of relevant videos,...

's C++ implementation of Google File System. It parallels the Hadoop

Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data...

 project, which is implemented in Java. CloudStore supports incremental scalability, replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access from C++, Java and Python. There is a FUSE module so that the file system can be mounted on Linux.

In 2007 Kosmix published CloudStore as open source.

See also

• Google File System
  Google File System
  Google File System is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google Inc. for its own use. It is designed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware...
  
  
• List of file systems
• GlusterFS
  GlusterFS
  GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system developed by Gluster. It aggregates various storage servers over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. It has found a...
  
  
• MooseFS
  Moose File System
  Moose File System is a distributed file system developed by Gemius SA. The lead developer is Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki. MooseFS aims to be fault-tolerant, scalable, POSIX compliant, general-purpose file system for datacenters...
  
  

External links

• CloudStore page on Google Code
• CloudStore wiki