Hi, We are having a HDP 2.5.3 production deployment. However, we are planning to have a separate HDP-Search installation for an independent SolrCloud setup, with no relation to any of the Hadoop components. However, the intention is to have SolrCloud cluster to be setup using Ambari (I know its easy to setup SolrCloud independently, but its an org wide practice to use Ambari where possible). As this is expected to be a purely Solr cluster, wondering whether I can remove all the basic services like HDFS, MapReduce, YARN etc while using Ambari to setup Solr? Is this possible at all or should we be using blueprints to customise our Ambari / Solr setup altogether? Thanks ... View more

Hi, I am very new to Nifi and HDF and hence finding it tough to understand the USP of Nifi with respect to other data transport mechanisms. So any help would be grateful. Is NiFi’s primary interaction only through UI? How different is Nifi from Kafka or any enterprise ESB apart from the visual data flow aspect? Especially when comparing with Kafka, what is common between them and where does they differ? My understanding of the Nifi features with respect to Kafka Visual Command and Control - Not available in Kafka Data lineage - Something that can be done with Apache Atlas for Kafka? Data prioritisation - I presume this can be controlled with a combination of topics and consumers and consumer groups in Kafka Back pressure - As Kafka can retain data, consumers can always replay the data and catch-up Control Latency vs Throughput - Similar to back pressure and prioritisation, this can be controlled with consumers and topics with data retention Security - Kafka also has got security implementation Scaling - Build a Kafka cluster ... View more

Hi, I have a fundamental query on how permissions work in hadoop. We are setting up a cluster with master nodes, data nodes and edge nodes. Edge nodes are the ones exposed to outside world and all hadoop clients are installed on these machines. External applications stage their data on edge nodes first and then load them into hadoop. We are implementing security to our clusters and thinking to have data ownership and permissions defined through Ranger policies to the app-usr for both HDFS and Hive data. So if a application user app-usr is only given login access to edge nodes (through Active Directory groups), will the user be able to own any data in hadoop? For example, can I have a HDFS directory or Hive table that is owned by app-usr though the user is not available on the master nodes or data nodes but only on edge nodes. Will this allow me to configure Ranger policies for that user? Or should the user be able to login to all the nodes in the cluster? Looking for ideas on the best strategy around this. Thanks ... View more