# HDFS

Establishes a connection to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to access and retrieve large-scale files with optimized performance.

### In this section

* [HDFS properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/connectors-guide/Cloud/connector-hdfs)
* [HDFS access control](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/connectors-guide/Cloud/hdfs-access-control)