Alex Woodie covers some upcoming changes with Hadoop version 3:
Hadoop 3, as it currently stands (which is subject to change), won’t look significantly different from Hadoop 2, Ajisaka said. Made generally available in the fall of 2013, Hadoop 2 was a very big deal for the open source big data platform, as it introduced the YARN scheduler, which effectively decoupled the MapReduce processing framework from HDFS, and paved the way for other processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark, to process data on Hadoop simultaneously. That has been hugely successful for the entire Hadoop ecosystem.
It appears the list of new features in Hadoop 3 is slightly less ambitious than the Hadoop 2 undertaking. According to Ajisaka’s presentation, in addition to support for erasure coding and bug fixes, Hadoop 3 currently calls for new features like:
- shell script rewrite;
- task-level native optimization;
- the capability to derive heap size or MapReduce memory automatically;
- eliminating of old features;
- and support for more than two NameNodes.
The big benefit to erasure coding is that you can potentially cut data usage requirements in half, so that can help in very large environments. Alex also notes that the first non-beta version of Hadoop 3 is expected to release by the end of the year.