What’s New in Cloudera Altus Director 6.0?

No Comments
Categories: Cloudera Director

Cloudera Altus Director 6.0 adds support for deploying CDH 6 clusters on public cloud infrastructure. Altus Director also features improved integration with SDX configured namespaces, allows encryption of its configuration properties, and includes a tool for copying its database. Altus Director’s interfaces have been streamlined, removing deprecated features and old API endpoints.

Cloudera Altus Director, formerly known as Cloudera Director, helps you deploy, scale, and manage Cloudera clusters in AWS,

Read more

Support Best Practices Video

No Comments
Categories: Customer Success

Cloudera Support recently received Service Capability & Performance (SCP) certification for the third consecutive year. In order to earn this industry-leading mark of distinction, a support organization must demonstrate an ongoing commitment to exemplary standards and methodologies in over 100 major performance areas. At the heart of this achievement is the fundamental mission of Cloudera Support: Enable total customer success.

Cloudera strongly believes that timely, accurate, and healthy communication has to exist between the customer and our support organization in order to result in a successful outcome for both parties.

Read more

Robust Message Serialization in Apache Kafka Using Apache Avro, Part 3

No Comments
Categories: Avro CDH How-to Kafka

Part 3: Configuring Clients

Earlier, we introduced Kafka Serializers and Deserializers that are capable of writing and reading Kafka records in Avro format. In this part we will going to see how to configure producers and consumers to use them.

Setting up a Kafka Topic for use as a Schema Store

KafkaTopicSchemaProvider works with a Kafka topic as its persistent store. This topic will contain at most thousands of records: the schemas. It does not need multiple partitions,

Read more

Robust Message Serialization in Apache Kafka Using Apache Avro, Part 2

No Comments
Categories: Avro CDH How-to Kafka

Implementing a Schema Store

In Part 1, we saw the need for an Apache Avro schema provider but did not implement one. In this part we will implement a schema provider that works with Apache Kafka as storage.

In-Memory SchemaStore

First we can implement an in-memory store for schemas. This is useful to understand the requirements for such a store and as the cache of the Kafka backed store. A SchemaStore has to be quick in looking up VersionedSchema entries.

Read more

Introducing Cloudera Altus SDX (Beta)

2 Comments
Categories: Altus Analytic Database CDH Cloud Data Ingestion Hive Impala Metadata and Lineage

The motivation behind Cloudera Altus SDX is to enable multiple clusters to share the same consistent view of enterprise data hosted on Amazon S3 and Microsoft ADLS. At the heart of Altus SDX is a repository of attributes describing locations and structure of data, access rights, business glossary definitions, lineage and more.

We often hear from our customers about use cases where data is in the cloud and clusters are created on demand to ingest new datasets.

Read more