Long term component architecture
As the main curator of open standards in Hadoop, Cloudera has a track record of bringing new open source solutions into its platform (such as Apache Spark, Apache HBase, and Apache Parquet) that are eventually adopted by the community at large. As standards, you can build longterm architecture on these components with confidence.
PLEASE NOTE:
With the exception of DSSD support, Cloudera Enterprise 5.6.0 is identical to CDH 5.5.2/Cloudera Manager 5.5.3 If you do not need DSSD support, you do not need to upgrade if you are already using the latest 5.5.x release.
- System Requirements
- What's New
- Documentation
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems
- Supported Databases
- Supported JDK Versions
- Supported Internet Protocol
Supported Operating Systems
Supported Databases
Component |
MySQL |
SQLite |
PostgreSQL |
Oracle |
Derby - see Note 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oozie |
5.5 |
- |
8.4 |
10.2, 11gR2 |
Default |
Flume |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Default (for the JDBC Channel only) |
Hue |
5.0+ See Note 1 |
Default |
8.4 |
11gR2 |
- |
Hive |
5.5 |
- |
8.4 |
10.2, 11gR2 |
Default |
Sqoop 1 |
See Note 2 |
- |
See Note 2 |
See Note 2 |
- |
Sqoop 2 |
See Note 3 |
- |
See Note 3 |
See Note 3 |
Default |
Notes
- Cloudera's recommendations are:
- For Red Hat and similar systems:
- Use MySQL server version 5.0 (or higher) and version 5.0 client shared libraries on Red Hat 5 and similar systems.
- Use MySQL server version 5.1 (or higher) and version 5.1 client shared libraries on Red Hat 6 and similar systems.
If you use a higher server version than recommended here (for example, if you use 5.5) make sure you install the corresponding client libraries.
- For SLES systems, use MySQL server version 5.0 (or higher) and version 5.0 client shared libraries.
- For Ubuntu systems:
- Use MySQL server version 5.5 (or higher) and version 5.0 client shared libraries on Precise (12.04).
- For Red Hat and similar systems:
- For connectivity purposes only, Sqoop 1 supports MySQL5.1, PostgreSQL 9.1.4, Oracle 10.2, Teradata 13.1, and Netezza TwinFin 5.0. The Sqoop metastore works only with HSQLDB (1.8.0 and higher 1.x versions; the metastore does not work with any HSQLDB 2.x versions).
- Sqoop 2 can transport data to and from MySQL5.1, PostgreSQL 9.1.4, Oracle 10.2, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The Sqoop 2 repository is supported only on Derby.
- Derby is supported as shown in the table, but not always recommended. See the pages for individual components in the CDH 5 Installation Guide for recommendations.
Supported JDK Versions
CDH 5 is supported with Oracle JDK 1.7.
Latest Certified Version | Minimum Supported Version | Exceptions |
---|---|---|
1.7.0_45 | 1.7.0_25 | None |
Supported Internet Protocol
CDH requires IPv4. IPv6 is not supported.
See also Configuring Network Names.
What's New
What's New in CDH 5.0.3
This is a maintenance release that fixes the following issues:
Documentation
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