In-place analytics using unified file and object access

Use the following information to leverage in-place object data analytics using unified file and object access.

Unified file and object access is one of the key features of IBM Spectrum Scale™ for object storage that enables direct object access as files from the traditional file access such as POSIX, NFS or SMB and vice versa. Using object storage policies for containers you can have object ingested in IBM Spectrum Scale for object storage be accessed as files as well as allow files ingested using file protocols available for object access. This feature enables data analytics of object data hosted on IBM Spectrum Scale, where you can leverage in-place object data analytics. IBM Spectrum Scale supports Hadoop connectors using which you can run analytics on the object data which is accessible from the file interface and generates in-place results which are directly accessible from the object interface. This prevents any movement of data across object interfaces and thus proves to be a suitable platform for object storage as well as integrated in-place analytics for the data hosted by it.

The following diagram shows an IBM Spectrum Scale object store with unified file and object access. The object data is available as file on the same fileset. IBM Spectrum Scale Hadoop connectors allow the data to be directly leveraged for analytics.