Limits
This topic describes the limits and performance metrics of Apsara File Storage for HDFS.
Performance metrics
Metric | Description |
Data durability | 99.999999999% (eleven 9s) |
Average 4 KB read latency | Less than 1 ms |
Average 4 KB write latency | Less than 1 ms |
Maximum throughput | 150 GB/s |
Maximum read and write throughput density | 150 MB/s/TB |
Maximum IOPS | 10,000 per TB |
File system limits
Limit | Limitations |
File systems per account per region | 3 |
Mount targets per file system | 2 |
Concurrent compute node mounts per file system | Unlimited |
Maximum directory depth | 1000 layers |
Maximum files or directories per file system | 1 billion |
Maximum capacity per file system | 1 PiB |
Permission groups per account per region | 10 |
Permission rules per permission group | 100 |
Concurrent active processes per mount target | Supports 10,000 active SDK processes |
Protocol feature limits
Symbolic links are not supported.
File concatenation (concat) is not supported.
Snapshot-related operations are not supported.
Operations related to delegation tokens and checksums, such as setWriteChecksum and setVerifyChecksum, are not supported.
ACL-related operations are not supported.
FileBlockLocations are not supported.
Path, file, and directory naming conventions
Paths
Only Unicode characters and strings are supported.
Path elements cannot contain ASCII characters from 0 to 31.
Filenames and directories:
The value cannot be an empty string, a single dot (.), or two consecutive dots (..).
Cannot contain colons (:), forward slashes (/), or tildes (~).
Hadoop fs command limits
Snapshot-related commands, such as createSnapshot, deleteSnapshot, and renameSnapshot, are not supported.
ACL-related commands, such as setfacl and getfacl, are not supported.
For more information about open source Hadoop, see the Hadoop documentation.
API limits
The WebHDFS REST API is not supported.