# tHDFSGet

Copies files from Hadoop distributed file system(HDFS), pastes them in a user-defined directory and if needs be, renames them.

tHDFSGet connects to Hadoop distributed file system, helping to obtain large-scale files with optimized performance.

For more technologies supported by Talend, see [Talend components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/hdfs).

### In this section

* [tHDFSGet Standard properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/hdfs/thdfsget-standard-properties)

**Related concepts**

[Computing data with Hadoop distributed file system](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/hdfs/thdfsget-thdfsput-tfileinputdelimited-tlogrow-computing-data-with-hadoop-distributed-file-system-standard-component-bigdata-the)

[Iterating on a HDFS directory](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/hdfs/thdfslist-thdfsget-thdfsconnection-iterating-on-hdfs-directory-standard-component-bigdata-this)