Accessing HDFS Data with gphdfs (Deprecated)

    Note: The external table protocol is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of Greenplum Database. Consider using the Greenplum Platform Extension Framework (PXF) external table protocol to access data stored in a Hadoop file system.

    There are three steps to using the gphdfs protocol with HDFS:

    For information about using Greenplum Database external tables with Amazon EMR when Greenplum Database is installed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), also see .