baidu/bfs

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2847 stars · 552 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Baidu File System (BFS) is a distributed file system written in C++ designed for real-time applications, offering fault tolerance, low read/write latency, and high throughput. It uses Raft for metadata consistency and supports multi-datacenter deployment with up to 10,000 data nodes.

Use cases

• store and serve files for real-time search indexing systems
• run a fault-tolerant distributed file system with low latency
• replace HDFS for workloads needing low-latency reads and writes
• deploy a scalable file system across multiple data centers
• back user behavior analytics pipelines with shared storage

When to choose

• you need a distributed file system optimized for low-latency real-time workloads rather than batch processing
• you want Raft-based metadata consistency with no single point of failure
• you operate large Linux C++ clusters and can build from source

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose POSIX file system for desktop use
• you want a mature, actively maintained project - the last release was 2018
• you need Hadoop ecosystem integration out of the box

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

file-system caching streaming microservices big-data infrastructure-as-code cpp distributed-file-system raft low-latency high-throughput storage linux

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