Press "Enter" to skip to content

Replicating Data In HDFS Between Clusters

Murali Ramasami and Niru Anisetti have an article showing how to use the Hortonworks Data Lifecycle Manager to set up replication between two Hadoop clusters:

Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) delivers on the promise of location-agnostic, secure replication by encapsulating and copying data seamlessly across physical private storage and public cloud environments. This empowers businesses to deliver the right data in the right environment to power the right use cases.

DLM v1.1 provides a complete solution to replicate data, metadata and security policies between on-premises and in cloud. It also supports data movement for data-at-rest and data-in-motion – whether the data is encrypted using a single key or multiple keys on both source and target clusters. DLM supports HDFS and Apache Hive dataset replication.

With DLM infrastructure administrators can manage their data, metadata and security management on-prem and in-cloud using a single-pane of glass that is built on open source technology. Business users can consume their workload outputs in the cloud with data-source-abstraction. DLM also enables business to reduce their capital expenditures and enjoy the benefits of flexibility and elasticity that cloud provides.

Click through for a demo.  May HDFS replication have as long a life and slightly less vitriol than SQL Server replication.