HopsFS provides a 10x performance increase over HDFS by externalizing the HDFS NameNode metadata state to NDB, a NewSQL in-memory database. This allows the NameNode to scale beyond a single server by distributing the metadata across the NDB cluster. HopsFS also leverages implicit locking, path component caching, and heterogeneous storage including erasure coding to further optimize performance. Hops-YARN similarly improves YARN scalability by storing the ResourceManager state in NDB.