The hadoop (HDFS) based gateway stores the cluster meta data in hadoop. Hadoop support is provided as a plugin and installing is as simply as executing plugin -install hadoop or downloading the hadoop plugin and placing it under the plugins directory.

The hadoop gateway requires two simple settings. The gateway.hdfs.uri controls the URI to connect to the hadoop cluster, for example: hdfs://myhost:8022. The gateway.hdfs.path controls the path under which the gateway will store the data.

The hadoop HDFS gateway automatically sets for each index created to use an "Hadoop index gateway":../../../index_modules/gateway/hadoop.