Difference between Cloud Storage and HDFS

Feature	Cloud Storage	HDFS
I/O variance	Higher variance We can avoid it by using caching and read replica, considering cloud big table and cloud datastore.	Lower variance
Support of file appends or truncates	No can do overwrite of files	Yes
POSIX - compliant	not compliant	not fully compliant
file system information	no information available	"hadoop fsck --files --blocks"   -  exposes all directory information's in HDFS.
request latency	greater round trip latency	lesser latency
cost	57% lower total cost of ownership	Much higher compared to Cloud
separation between cloud storage and HDFS	Multiple clusters can access same location usage of gs:// in cloud workloads much better performance on Persistent Disk	Single cluster access access using hdfs:// with in cluster lesser performance due to low grade HDD
interoperability	seamless connectivity between spark and hadoop instances. exported files can import in big query. easier  to manage cloud dataflow tasks	standalone cluster instances operations manual access provision between instances and storage
storage management	Lesser overhead on operations team	Much overhead on operations team
startup time	quicker job startup time during job execution	it takes significant time to start up jobs
security	cloud inbuilt security and access using IAM	manual security and access setup. changing security key is an overhead to operations teams