Store File Tracking usage

Learn how to use the Store File Tracking (SFT) on your COD cluster.

When you create a COD cluster on an AWS environment using S3 storage, the new cluster automatically has the SFT feature enabled. To use this feature, you can create a new COD database using cdpcli-beta.

The following is an example of the create-database command.

cdp opdb create-database --environment-name myEnvironment --database-name myDatabase

COD databases are created and the provided feature flag results in all HBase and Phoenix tables using the SFT feature. If you want to use the HDFS storage for your COD cluster and use the --use-hdfs option while creating the COD database, the SFT feature is not enabled because this feature is not relevant when HDFS is being used.

You do not need to recompile or update code in your applications for COD databases which have this feature enabled. Cloudera recommends that you update applications to the same version of HBase and Phoenix client libraries to match the version of their COD database.