• Online, Self-Paced

Distributions provide performance and functionality enhancements over the base open source code Apache provides. In this course, you'll learn about the various distributions available and common maintenance tasks in a Hadoop environment.

Learning Objectives

Maintenance

  • start the course
  • demonstrate how to perform metadata and data backups
  • create and delete snapshots
  • list common problems for Hadoop administrators
  • use the filesystem balancer tool to keep filesystem datanodes evenly balanced
  • remove a node from a Hadoop cluster

Distributions

  • describe the benefits of distributions
  • list the components of a Cloudera distribution, including Impala, Crunch, Kite, and Cloudera Manager
  • name the components of a Hortonworks distribution, including Tez, Falcon, and Ambari
  • recall the benefits of the MapR distribution

Practice: Maintaining Hadoop

  • perform Hadoop snapshot operations

Framework Connections

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