Announcing: Cloudera Enterprise 5 Beta

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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
• Rebase on Hadoop 2.2 GA
• 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
• Rebase on 0.8

As part of the open beta, we encourage the community to try it out. Here is how you can get started:

• Download Cloudera Enterprise from: cloudera.com/downloads install and try it out. 
• View the documentation:
• CDH 5 Beta 1 Documentation
• Cloudera Manager 5 Beta 1 Documentation

Once you get started, we encourage you to provide feedback. We have the following mechanisms set up to do this:

• A beta specific community forum has been set up. Click here to join. Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback.

• File a bug through our public Jira.  You can reach it at:

• https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/DISTRO

• https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/CM

We look forward to hearing about your experiences of Cloudera Enterprise 5 beta.