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+# Barbarian Data System
+
+Barbarian is the world's best cloud-first, cloud-agnostic in-memory big data system founded on Apache Hadoop for enterprise-ready parallel distributed data processing at scale.
+
+Read more at:
+[https://barbarians.io/](https://barbarians.io)
+
+Docs at:
+[http://docs.barbarians.io/](http://docs.barbarians.io)
+
+### About Barbarian
+
+The Barbarian Data System is an in-memory, parallel, distributed (MPP) data warehousing engine designed to be deployed to Kubernetes clusters, offering Apache Hive for powerful and flexible SQL based analytics. Barbarian includes an integrated in-memory filesystem and can run in three modes of operation.
+* As an in-memory, standalone data warehousing system
+* As a data warehousing system backed by an external storage system like Amazon S3
+* In a hybrid mode, where primary storage is the external storage system, with common paths mounted to the in-memory filesystem
+
+Barbarian includes compelling features including Apache Hive LLAP and Tez, with transactional tables enabled by default. 
+
+Barbarian's integrated Ignite in-memory distributed parallel filesystem is resilient to node failure with replication enabled by default.
+
+Barbarian has no single points of failure.
+
+Barbarian is offered with the [Apache v2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) software license.
+
+### Installing Barbarian
+
+Barbarian can be deployed to your Kubernetes cluster with just two commands:
+
+```
+helm repo add barbarians http://charts.barbarians.io/barbarian
+helm install barbarians/barbarian
+```
+
+## Base Container image
+
+This repo contains the configuration files and build scripts for the Barbarian Hadoop Distribution **base container image**.
+
+The latest release of the base container image is based on the following Apache Foundation software releases:
+- Apache Hadoop 3.1.2
+
+## Releases
+
+| Release | Notes |
+| -- | -- |
+| 0.1 | Prelease 1 |
+| 0.2 | Barbarian Data System r2 |
+| -- | -- |
+
+## Building
+
+See .codefresh
+
+## Running
+
+This image is designed to be run as a part of the Barbarian Hadoop distribution - a Kubernetes based platform for data processing at scale, founded on free software developed by the [Apache Software Foundation](https://www.apache.org/).
+
+## Features
+
+The image includes support for the following features:
+- Hadoop YARN
+- YARN RM HA
+- YARN Services
+- Ignite IGFS integration