Hoop is a new tool from Apache Hadoop contributor and enterprise support company Cloudera. Hoop provides access to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) over HTTP via a REST API. It can be used to exchange data between Hadoop clusters running different versions the platform, or to access data behind a firewall.
Hoop is a complete rewrite of Hadoop HDFS Proxy. Cloudera claims it offers the following advantages over Proxy:
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