It's simple to change it with ambari UI. Otherwise use the ambari configs.sh script and restart all the services. It's smooth and easy. ... View more

@Alex Miller Let's file a bug ... View more

Yes it can do Inserts, but it turns out that they're RBAR updates. We may try SIMBA drivers to see if they improve the performance (allow batching) but we are in the meantime moving ahead with Inserts via Access -> SQL Server -> Hive via Sqoop. ... View more

@rxu what did you end up doing? Please accept best answer or provide your own solution? ... View more

Hi @Randy Gelhausen, I tried this method, It works fine if you have a kafka topic with single partition, but when I try to ingest messages into a kafka topic with two partitions, only one of the partiton is being hit. Could you suggest a way to ingest messages in multiple partitions. ... View more

@Guilherme Braccialli / Neeraj Sabharwal What is the best way to backup the Ranger database 0.5.0(for the purpose of disaster recovery). I see that the REST API is available. Can you please share your experience if you have implemented this in your organization? Thank you. ... View more

@Andrea D'Orio Thanks for sharing, indeed we need information like this. keep sharing 🙂 ... View more

ORC is considering adding a faster decompression in 2016 - zstd (ZStandard). The enum values for that has already been reserved, but until we work through the trade-offs involved in ZStd - more on that sometime later this year. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ORC-46 But bigger wins are in motion for ORC with LLAP, the in-memory format for LLAP isn't compressed at all - so it performs like ORC without compression overheads, while letting the cold data on disk sit around in Zlib. ... View more

Well, it seems 600 characters wasn't enough for to supply enough of the back story @Peter Coates, so I added some high-level details in my original answer. I'd be glad to share more fine-grained info via email if you'd like. ... View more

That worked! Thanks @Ali Bajwa ... View more