This is the documentation for Product Compatibility Matrix As Of Cloudera Manager 5.1.x and CDH 5.1.x.
Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera.com.

JDK Compatibility

This matrix contains compatibility information across versions of JDK and CDH/Cloudera Manager. For details about the JDK minor versions supported by the latest versions of CDH and Cloudera Manager, refer the following topics:
Product JDK 6 JDK 7
Supported Cloudera Manager versions
  • Cloudera Manager 4.x.x
  • Cloudera Manager 5.x.x
  • Cloudera Manager 4.5.1 (and later 4.x.x)
  • Cloudera Manager 5.x.x
Supported CDH versions
  Note: For CDH versions that support both JDK 6 and JDK 7, all components must be running the same major version (that is, all deployed on JDK 6 or all deployed on JDK 7). For example, you cannot run HDFS, MapReduce and/or YARN on JDK 6 while running Sqoop on JDK 7.
  • CDH 4.x.x
  • CDH 4.4.0 (and later 4.x.x)
  • JDK 7 is required for CDH 5.x.x