We are pleased to announce the beta release of Cloudera Enterprise 5 (CDH 5 and Cloudera Manager 5). This release has both Impala and Search integrated into CDH. It also includes many new features and updated component versions including the ones below:
- Hadoop
- HDFS
- HDFS Snapshots
- HDFS Caching Preview
- MR
- MR2 is production ready
- MR2 Management by Cloudera Manager
- MR1 and MR2 are both supported
- Resource Management/YARN
- Ability to run MR and Impala with resource sharing
- Resource Management High Availability
- Cloudera Manager
- Platform coverage/support for CDH 5
- Resource/Workload management
- Extensibility support for Partner applications
- Advanced Impala monitoring
- HBase
- Significant reductions to Mean time to Recovery (MTTR)
- Rebase on HBase 0.95.2+
- Impala
- Language extensibility with native UDFs and UDAF plus support for existing Hive UDFs
- Automatic and coordinated metadata refresh
- Preview of YARN-integrated resource management
- Support for HDFS caching
- Hive
- Rebase to Hive 0.11 plus most of Hive 0.12
- Hive Support for MR2
- Search
- Support for CDH5 (MR1, MR2, HBase 0.95.2)
- Back-up and Disaster Recovery (BDR)
- HDFS Snapshots
- HBase Snapshots
- Support for MR2
- Global replication page
- Oozie
- Oozie HA
- Rebase on Oozie 4.0
- Hue
- Sqoop App
- Zookeeper App
- Hue 3.0
- Mahout
As part of the open beta, we encourage the community to try it out. Here is how you can get started:
Once you get started, we encourage you to provide feedback. We have the following mechanisms set up to do this:
We look forward to hearing about your experiences of Cloudera Enterprise 5 beta.
