3.2. Community Features

The following features are developed and tested by the community, but are not officially supported by Hortonworks. There are variety of reasons that these features are excluded, including: insufficient reliability or incomplete test case coverage, declaration of non-production readiness by the community at large, feature deviates from Hortonworks best practices, and more. Do not use them in your production environments.

 

Table 1.2. Community Features

ComponentFeature

Falcon

  • Prism Server

  • User Recipes

HBase

  • HBase Column Family Encryption: use HDFS data at rest encryption instead

  • Use of memcached as block cache is unsupported (HBASE-13170)

  • ZooKeeper-less region assignment

  • Region size balancing (HBASE-13103)

HDFS

Knox

  • Storm REST APIs

Oozie

Slider

  • Simplified Application Packaging

YARN

  • Fair Scheduler

  • MapReduce Eclipse Plug-in

  • MapReduce Uber AM