Tag: Cloudera

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Charles Zedlewski. I’m very pleased to announce the immediate General Availability of CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4 (part of the Cloudera Enterprise 4.0 subscription).  These releases are an exciting milestone for Cloudera customers, Cloudera users and the open source community as a whole. FunctionalityBoth CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4 are chock full of new features. Many new features will appeal to enterprises looking to move  more important workloads onto the Apache Hadoop platform. CDH4 includes high availability for the filesystem, ability to support multiple namespaces, Apache HBase table and column level security, improved performance, HBase replication and greatly improved usability ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: bc Wong. Hue 2.0.1 has just been released. 2.0.1 represents major improvement on top of the Hue 1.x series. To list a few key new features: Frontend has been re-implemented as full screen pages. Hue supports LDAP (OpenLDAP and Active Directory). Hue can be configured to authenticate against LDAP. Additionally, Hue can import users and groups from LDAP, and refresh group membership from LDAP. Hue supports per-application authorization. Administrators can grant or limit group access to applications. Hue has a new Shell application, which allows access to the HBase shell, Pig shell, and more ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Charles Zedlewski. I’m pleased to inform our users and customers that we have released the Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop version 4 (CDH4) 2nd and final beta today. We received great feedback from the community from the first beta and this release incorporates that feedback as well as a number of new enhancements. CDH4 has a great many enhancements compared to CDH3. Availability – a high availability namenode, better job isolation, improved hard disk failure handling, and multi-version support Utilization – multiple namespaces and a slot-less resource management model Performance – improvements in ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: David S. Wang. Cloudera and Cisco jointly announced a reference architecture for running Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) last November. It was the first Apache Hadoop reference architecture assembled by Cisco, and is proudly certified by Cloudera. I bring a different perspective on the Cloudera-Cisco relationship, as I worked for over five years in Cisco on the software powering the Nexus 5000 series switches and the Cisco Virtual Interface Card. I now work at Cloudera on the HBase team, and can fully appreciate ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Adam Smieszny. Several weeks ago, I set about to demonstrate the ease with which Solr and Map/Reduce can be integrated. I was unable to find a simple, yet comprehensive, primer on integrating the two technologies. So I set about to write one. What follows is my bare-bones tutorial on getting Solr up and running to index each word of the complete works of Shakespeare. Note: Special thanks to Sematext for looking over the Solr bits and making sure they are sane. Check them out if you’re going to be doing a lot of ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Charles Zedlewski. I’m pleased to inform our users and customers that Cloudera has released its 4th version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) into beta today. This release combines the input from our enterprise customers, partners and users with the hard work of Cloudera engineering and the larger Apache open source community to create what we believe is a compelling advance for this widely adopted platform. There are a great many improvements and new capabilities in CDH4 compared to CDH3. Here is a high level list of what’s available for you to ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Basier Aziz. Earlier today, Cloudera proudly released the Cloudera Connector for Tableau. The availability of this connector serves both Tableau users who are looking to expand the volume of datasets they manipulate and Hadoop users who want to enable analysts like Tableau users to make the data within Hadoop more meaningful. Enterprises can now extract the full value of big data and allow a new class of power users to interact with Hadoop data in ways they priorly could not. The Cloudera Connector for Tableau is a free ODBC Driver that enables Tableau ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Charles Zedlewski. Keeping with our release policy for Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) I’m pleased to announce the availability of update 3 for CDH3.  As a reminder, we ship updates for our most recent GA distribution every 3 months.  Updates primarily include bug fixes but when possible we will also include features from our mid-term roadmap.  We’ll only include new features when they do not introduce instability or break compatibility.  As always, users have the option to skip updates without incurring any future upgrade cost. Update 3 contains a number of new ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Ed Albanese. Cloudera users gain more choice, tighter Oracle integration. Cloudera partners gain increased validation of their platform choice. Ed AlbaneseEd leads business development for Cloudera. He is responsible for identifying new markets, revenue opportunities and strategic alliances for the company. Summary: Oracle has selected Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager software as core technologies on the Oracle Big Data Appliance, a high performance “engineered system.” Oracle and Cloudera announced a multiyear agreement to provide CDH, Cloudera Manager, and support services in conjunction with Oracle Support for use on the ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Pero works on research and development in new technologies for online advertising at Aol Advertising R&D in Palo Alto. Over the past 4 years he has been the Chief Architect of R&D distributed ecosystem comprising more than thousand nodes in multiple data centers. He also led large-scale contextual analysis, segmentation and machine learning efforts at AOL, Yahoo and Cadence Design Systems and published patents and research papers in these areas. A critical premise for success of online advertising networks is to successfully collect, organize, analyze and use large volumes of data ... Read More