This document compares and contrasts the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and the Google File System (GFS), which are both frameworks for handling large-scale, distributed data storage and processing. HDFS is an open-source system implemented by Apache and used by companies like Yahoo, Facebook, and IBM. GFS was originally developed by Google as a proprietary system. Both systems use a master-slave architecture with a centralized metadata manager and distributed data nodes, but HDFS uses a NameNode and DataNodes while GFS uses a MasterNode and ChunkServers. The document outlines several key similarities and differences between the two systems in their objectives, implementations, hardware usage, file management, operations, and other technical aspects.