Community Features

The following features are developed and tested by the Hortonworks Community but are not officially supported by Hortonworks due to insufficient reliability or incomplete test case coverage, declaration of nonproduction readiness by the community at large, feature deviation from Hortonworks best practices, and other reasons. Do not use them in your production environments.

Table 1.3. Community Features

Apache Component	Feature
Falcon	Prism Server User Recipes
HBase	Use of HDFS data-at-rest encryption instead of HBase Column Family Encryption Use of memcached as block cache is unsupported (HBASE-13170) Region assignment without using ZooKeeper Region size balancing (HBASE-13103)
HDFS	HTTPFS (HDFS-2179) HTTPFS is used with Hue, in combination with Knox, and standalone as an API gateway. We highly recommend that you replace HTTPFS with Knox where possible. Block-volume device choice (HDFS-1804) NameNode Federation (HDFS-1052) viewFS (HADOOP-7257)
Kafka	New Consumer API
Knox	Storm REST APIs
Oozie	Spark action (OOZIE-1983)
Slider	Simplified Application Packaging
Spark	Spark Standalone Spark on Mesos Jupyter/iPython Notebook Tech note available for HDP customers who want to use Oozie Spark, which is not supported
YARN	Fair Scheduler MapReduce Eclipse Plug-in MapReduce Uber AM

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Community Features