Community Features

The following features are developed and tested by the Hortonworks Community but are not officially supported by Hortonworks due to insufficient reliability or incomplete test case coverage, declaration of non-production readiness by the community at large, feature deviation from Hortonworks best practices, and other reasons. Do not use them in your production environments.

Table 1.3. Community Features

Apache Component	Feature
Falcon	Introduced in a previous release: Prism Server User Recipes
HBase	Introduced in a previous release: Use of HDFS data-at-rest encryption instead of HBase Column Family Encryption Use of memcached as block cache is unsupported (HBASE-13170) Region assignment without using ZooKeeper Region size balancing (HBASE-13103)
HDFS	Introduced in a previous release: NameNode Federation (HDFS-1052) Disk Hot Swap (HDFS-1362) Block-volume device choice (HDFS-1804) viewFS (HADOOP-7257)
Kafka	Introduced in a previous release: New Consumer API
Knox	Introduced in a previous release: Storm REST APIs
Oozie	Introduced in a previous release: Spark action (OOZIE-1983)
Slider	Introduced in a previous release: Simplified Application Packaging
Spark	Introduced in a previous release: Spark Standalone Spark on Mesos Jupyter/iPython Notebook Tech note available for HDP customers who want to use Oozie Spark, which is not supported
YARN	Introduced in a previous release: Fair Scheduler MapReduce Eclipse Plug-in MapReduce Uber AM

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Community Features