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KurioZ7
KurioZ7

Reputation: 6349

Is HortonWorks Sandbox VM preferred in production environment?

The HortonWorks HDP, could be implemented in two ways:

  1. Sandbox (VM)

  2. Manual Installation.

I would like to understand, whether HDP SandBox, or the manual installation is preferred in the production environment. The choice could be made on obvious reasons like performance, but I would like to understand whether there are any other considerations?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 629

Answers (2)

adouang
adouang

Reputation: 374

The Hortonworks Sandbox allows to try out the features and functionality in Hadoop and its' ecosystem of projects. That's all.

If you want to go to production, you have three installation type:

  • Automated with Ambari
  • Manual
  • Cloud with Cloudbreak

Regards, Alain

Upvotes: 0

Legato
Legato

Reputation: 1081

  1. performance. hadoop is about parallel processing. Can't do that with a single node.
  2. storage. hadoop uses a distributed file system. With a single node your storage space is very limited.
  3. redundancy. if this node dies, everything is gone. Normal hadoop configuration include a redundancy factor (of 3 by default) so that when some nodes or disks go down, all of the data is still reachable. Similarly with a standby namenode.

There are a few other points, but these are the main ones IMO.

Single node hadoop only makes sense for proof of concept, and experimentation. Not for providing production level value.

Upvotes: 0

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