CDH 5.7 and 5.3; HBase 1.2 and 0.98 compatibility

[#1]

We maintain several CDH clusters and are thinking of upgrading to new CDH 5.7(8?) soon - we'll do that one cluster at a time and therefore need cross version compatbility. More precisely during the time that that we run clusters on different versions we would like to:

1. Send HBase snapshots between clusters on HBase 1.2 and 0.98 (both directions): HFile compatbility.
2. Talk to all HBase clusters using 0.98 client (or alternatively 1.2 client) - in other words using single version of the client to talk to either cluster: Wire compatbility.

Are the above supported? Do you recommend first moving client to 1.2 or statying on 0.98 until all of the servers are running 1.2?

Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

We have confirmed that both (1) and (2) are supported and we moved our clients to 1.2 first.