S3Guard Suggested to help fix Consistency

[#1]

Hi All

Is Cloudera suggesting to use S3Guard as a solution for the consistency problem in multi-step ETL? Cause in the reference architecture, the suggested option is to load data from S3 into HDFS and then write back to S3?

Thanks

CK

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Yes that is correct, and the motivations/steps-to-use are reflected here too: https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/6/latest/topics/cm_s3guard.html

Note: On your point of 'load data from S3 into HDFS', it is better stated as simply 'read data from S3', where HDFS gets used as a transient storage (where/when required). There does not need to be a 'download X GiB data from S3 to HDFS first, only then begin jobs' step, as distributed jobs can read off of S3 via s3a:// URLs in the same way they do from HDFS hdfs://.