| It is PRIMARILY designed to hold a LARGE amount of data while providing access to multiple CLIENTS over a network. | It is designed to hold vast amounts of data (petabytes and terabytes) and also supports individual files having large sizes. |
| Here files are stored on a single machine. | Here, the files are stored over multiple machines. |
| It does not PROVIDE Data Reliability | It provides Datta Reliability. |
| If multiple clients are accessing the data at the same time, it can cause a server overload. | HDFS TAKES care of server overload very smoothly, and multiple access does not amount to server overload. |
