December 18, 2023

COD has enabled the COD_ON_GCS entitlement

You can deploy COD on a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by using Google Cloud Storage (GCS) similar to what is available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage and Microsoft Azure blob storage. Now, COD has enabled the COD_ON_GCS entitlement, by default, for such a deployment.

COD has removed the COD_EDGE_NODE entitlement

COD has removed the COD_EDGE_NODE entitlement now because it is not needed anymore. COD edge node functionality is enabled for all COD customers now.

COD has removed the COD_STOREFILE_TRACKING entitlement

COD has removed the COD_STOREFILE_TRACKING entitlement because it is not needed anymore. The Store File Tracking (SFT) functionality is enabled on all new COD clusters created with cloud storage.

COD has removed the OPDB_USE_EPHEMERAL_STORAGE entitlement

COD has removed the OPDB_USE_EPHEMERAL_STORAGE entitlement because it is not needed anymore. The use of COD on a cloud storage with ephemeral cache is enabled without an entitlement depending on the cluster creation parameters.

COD supports Multiple Availability Zones (Multi-AZ) on Azure [Technical Preview]

COD ensures high availability and fault tolerance using Multi-AZ deployments. A Multi-AZ deployment means that compute infrastructure for HBase’s master and region servers are distributed across multiple AZs ensuring that when a single availability zone has an outage, only a portion of Region Servers is impacted and clients automatically switch over to the remaining servers in the available AZs.

Multi-AZ for COD is now supported on Microsoft Azure environments as a technical preview and is considered under development. For more information, see Multi-AZ deployment on COD.

COD supports a new instance type I4i for Cloud With Ephemeral Storage type databases on AWS environments

When you create a new operational database with Cloud With Ephemeral Storage as the storage type on an AWS environment, COD creates the database with an I4i instance type for the worker nodes.

COD supports fast autoscaling for higher computing requirements

When you create a new operational database using CDP CLI, you can enable fast autoscaling by defining the required parameters using the --auto-scaling-parameters option. COD now supports a new instance group called, Compute. The nodes under this instance group are automatically scaled up or scaled down based on the CPU utilization and RPC latency.

To use fast autoscaling, you must have the COD_USE_COMPUTE_ONLY_NODES entitlement.

Following is a sample command.

cdp opdb create-database —environment-name <env_name> –database-name <db_name> --auto-scaling-parameters '{"minComputeNodesForDatabase":<min_compute_nodes>, "maxComputeNodesForDatabase": <max_compute_nodes>}'

For more information, see The fast autoscaling in COD.