Unified Big Data Analytics: Any stack, Any Cloud
Alluxio provides a virtual distributed file system that serves as an abstraction layer between applications and underlying storage systems. It presents a common interface to applications while enabling transparent migration between different storage backends. Alluxio improves data access performance by caching frequently used data in memory and SSD tiers. It also maintains metadata locally for more efficient operations. Several companies have reported significant performance improvements when using Alluxio to serve analytics workloads like Presto from object storage.