Thanks @mqureshi, sorry about the wild estimate numbers. Is it possible to share any sample reference from any real-life scenario, how much storage required proportionately for one large big table. The solution we are looking at needs both HBASE and SOLR as there is a need or real time read/write as well as full text search. So need to plan 2 separate clusters. Also I was told Solr is better without HDFS https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/71032/hdp-search.html#answer-71041 ... View more

Thanks @Cassandra Targett, so is it right to say, there are 3 modes 1. Solr standalone mode 2. master/slave 3. SolrCloud I assume the configuration is different for each type of setup. ... View more

Hi @dvillarreal I have kerberos enabled, I have a directory d--------- - hr1 hr 0 2016-09-21 09:49 /hr-zone in Ranger I have given access to /hr-zone to only hr1 user When I try to see the file as hdfs user I can see it [root@securityLab01 keytabs]# klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: hdfs-securityLab@MYDOMAIN.LOCAL Valid starting Expires Service principal 01/04/2017 05:22:05 01/04/2017 15:22:05 krbtgt/MYDOMAIN.LOCAL@MYDOMAIN.LOCAL renew until 01/11/2017 05:22:05 [root@securityLab01 keytabs]# hadoop fs -ls /hr-zone Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 3 hr1 hr 46878 2016-09-19 07:33 /hr-zone/sample_07.csv -rw-r--r-- 3 hr1 hr 46892 2016-09-19 07:33 /hr-zone/sample_08.csv ... View more

@Divakar Annapureddy I checked the document Eliminates the root account and replaces it with a compliance administrator account that executes commands with sudo This requirement doesn't seem to be supported by Ranger - hdfs can access folders protected by Ranger ... View more

@Divakar Annapureddy This is awesome! Thanks a ton. let me go through. I will keep the question open for any other inputs. ... View more