Is there any distributed file system which runs on Windows except Hadoop?

Question

I'm desperate to find any DFS which supports Windows. The only such DFS is Hadoop HDFS but it's very hard to deploy it other big number of Windows machines because it requires Cygwin + SSH.

Almost all DFS systems work only on Linux and only one (HDFS) runs on Windows.

I would be very grateful if somebody will be able to point me to other DFS with Windows support.

From DFS I need ability to load balance files across DFS nodes, compression and multi language API to work with DFS (I don't need to mount DFS).

Answer 1

There is DFS from Microsoft itself, it's in Windows Server (if it's good or bad I don't know)

Answer 2

Microsoft has something like Azure, but I have not learned more about their solution.

Answer 3

You might want to check out CloudIQ Storage from Appistry. It allows you to take the drives in commodity based machines (linux or windows) and have them appear as a single namespace accessible via a REST based API. When you write files to the system, you can define the number of copies you want saved. So if you had 5 machines in your distributed system, you could specify that a file be saved on 2 or 3 (or N) machines for redundancy. If a machine/hard drive crashes, its not an issue, because other machines hold copies of those files.

Check out the Downloads and Community links for a trial version as well as documentation.