One great thing about working for Hortonworks is that you get to try out new features before they are released, with real feature engineers as tour guides—features like LLAP, which stands for Live Long and Process. LLAP is coming to Hortonworks with Hive 2.0 and (spoiler alert) it looks like it will be worth the wait.
Originally a pure batch processing platform, Hive has speeded up enormously over the last couple of years with Tez, the cost-based optimizer (CBA), ORC files, and a host of other improvements. Queries that once took minutes now (1st quarter 2016) run at interactive speeds, and LLAP aims to push latencies into the sub-second range.
Hadoop and Ambari usually run over Linux, but please don’t fall into thinking of your cluster as a collection of Linux boxes; for stability and efficiency, you need to treat it like an appliance dedicated to Hadoop. Here’s why.
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