G.5 Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.4)

The following are changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.4):

• CDH (Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop) 5.5.1

• CDM (Cloudera Manager) 5.5.1

• Cloudera Navigator 2.4.1

• MySQL Database Enterprise Server - Advanced Edition 5.6

• Oracle Big Data Connectors 4.4

• Oracle Data Integrator Agent 12.2.1 (for Oracle Big Data Connectors)

• Oracle NoSQL Database 3.5.2

• Perfect Balance 2.6

• Oracle Big Data Appliance X6-2 server

  The X6-2 provides substantial increases in processing power and memory over X5–2 servers:

  • 2 x 22-core (2.2GHz) Intel® Xeon® E5-2699 v4 processors.

  • 8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400 memory (expandable to maximum of 768 GB per node).

  X6-2 servers are shipped with an Oracle Big Data Appliance v4.4.0 base image.

  In Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4.4 or greater, X6-2 nodes can be mixed with X5-2 nodes (and older Release 4.4–compatible nodes) in a CDH or NoSQL cluster. The X6-2 server is not compatible as a node of an Oracle Big Data Appliance cluster in releases previous to 4.4.

  See the Oracle Big Data Appliance X6-2 Data Sheet for more details.

• Cloudera CDH 5.5.1 and Cloudera Manager 5.5.1

  CDH 5.5.1 is a maintenance release on top of CDH 5.5. See the Cloudera CDH 5.5 Release Notes

  For information on Cloudera Manager 5.5 and 5.5.1, see New Features and Changes in Cloudera Manager 5

• Automated Installation for Cloudera Navigator

  Mammoth now provides an automated installation for Cloudera Navigator in both a full Mammoth installation and Mammoth upgrade. No user intervention is required and the installation occurs transparently. If Cloudera Navigator is not already installed, Mammoth installs the software on node 3 of the cluster, which is where other Cloudera Management services are hosted. If Cloudera Navigator is already installed, Mammoth skips this step and does not overwrite the existing installation.

  The Cloudera Navigator Metadata Server and Audit Server are automatically added to Cloudera Manager and auditing is enabled. Mammoth also enables Web UI encryption for the Audit Server.

  Mammoth does not enable the Cloudera Navigator key management components.

• Support for Oracle Big Data SQL 3.0

  Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4.4 includes Oracle Big Data SQL 2.0 as a Mammoth installation option. Oracle Big Data SQL 3.0 is also available for Release 4.4, as a patch. See the Oracle Big Data SQL User's Guide for Release 3.0 installation instructions.

  Note:

  If you want to install Oracle Big Data SQL 3.0, do not select Oracle Big Data SQL 2.0 in the Mammoth installation. If Oracle Big Data SQL 2.0 is installed, you must uninstall it prior to installing the 3.0 patch. The patch README file includes steps for removing 2.0 if you have previously installed it.