Alluxio, formerly Tachyon, is an open source, memory speed, virtual distributed storage. It enables any application to interact with any data from any storage system at memory speed.

Alluxio can run with Java 1.7 or above on various distributions of Linux / Mac

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing  <command+space>.
    Type terminal and hit  Enter key.
  2. Now, run
    ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  3. Install alluxio using brew
    brew install alluxio

alluxio is ready to use now!