Cloudera Search and Other Cloudera Components

Cloudera Search interacts with other Cloudera components to solve different problems. The following table lists Cloudera components that contribute to the Search process and describes how they interact with Cloudera Search:

Component Contribution Applicable To
HDFS Stores source documents. Search indexes source documents to make them searchable. Files that support Cloudera Search, such as Lucene index files and write-ahead logs, are also stored in HDFS. Using HDFS provides simpler provisioning on a larger base, redundancy, and fault tolerance. With HDFS, Cloudera Search servers are essentially stateless, so host failures have minimal consequences. HDFS also provides snapshotting, inter-cluster replication, and disaster recovery. All cases
MapReduce Search includes a pre-built MapReduce-based job. This job can be used for on-demand or scheduled indexing of any supported data set stored in HDFS. This job uses cluster resources for scalable batch indexing. Many cases
Flume Search includes a Flume sink that enables writing events directly to indexers deployed on the cluster, allowing data indexing during ingestion. Many cases
Hue Hue includes a GUI-based Search application that uses standard Solr APIs and can interact with data indexed in HDFS. The application provides support for the Solr standard query language and visualization of faceted search functionality. Many cases
Morphlines A morphline is a rich configuration file that defines an ETL transformation chain. Morphlines can consume any kind of data from any data source, process the data, and load the results into Cloudera Search. Morphlines run in a small, embeddable Java runtime system, and can be used for near real-time applications such as the flume agent as well as batch processing applications such as a Spark job. Many cases
ZooKeeper Coordinates distribution of data and metadata, also known as shards. It provides automatic failover to increase service resiliency. Many cases
Spark The CrunchIndexerTool can use Spark to move data from HDFS files into Apache Solr, and run the data through a morphline for extraction and transformation. Some cases
HBase Supports indexing of stored data, extracting columns, column families, and key information as fields. Although HBase does not use secondary indexing, Cloudera Search can facilitate full-text searches of content in rows and tables in HBase. Some cases
Cloudera Manager Deploys, configures, manages, and monitors Cloudera Search processes and resource utilization across services on the cluster. Cloudera Manager helps simplify Cloudera Search administration, but it is not required. Some cases
Cloudera Navigator Cloudera Navigator provides governance for Hadoop systems including support for auditing Search operations. Some cases
Sentry Apache Sentry enables role-based, fine-grained authorization for Cloudera Search. Sentry can apply restrictions to various actions, such as accessing data, managing configurations through config objects, or creating collections. Restrictions are consistently enforced, regardless of how users attempt to complete actions. For example, restricting access to data in a collection restricts that access whether queries come from the command line, a browser, Hue, or through the admin console. Some cases
Oozie Automates scheduling and management of indexing jobs. Oozie can check for new data and begin indexing jobs as required. Some cases
Impala Further analyzes search results. Some cases
Hive Further analyzes search results. Some cases
Parquet Provides a columnar storage format, enabling especially rapid result returns for structured workloads such as Impala or Hive. Morphlines provide an efficient pipeline for extracting data from Parquet. Some cases
Avro Includes metadata that Cloudera Search can use for indexing. Some cases
Kafka Search uses this message broker project to increase throughput and decrease latency for handling real-time data. Some cases
Sqoop Ingests data in batch and enables data availability for batch indexing. Some cases