Short for Azure Blob File System driver. Hadoop, Spark and HDInsight rely on this HDFS-compatible connector to read and write ADLS Gen2 data.
Also called Azure Blob File System driver.
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Terms in this definition
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- ADLS Gen2
Short for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: a standard GPv2 account with hierarchical namespace turned on, so analytics workloads get true directories and POSIX-style ACLs.
Related terms
- HDFS
The Hadoop Distributed File System. ADLS Gen2 is compatible with it through the ABFS driver.