Cloudera Updates Quickstart VM with Search Features

Cloudera
Inc., announced updates to its QuickStart VM, a free no registration download that offers the
Cloudera experience on a single machine.

It enables users to sample the power of
Hadoop for big data. The VM to market Hadoop platform is now
integrated with Cloudera Search and Cloudera Impala to provide
real-time search capabilities and faster access to data in Hadoop.

Additional updates include: integration
with the new 2.3 version of the Hadoop user interface project
Hue, support for CDH version 4.3 and Cloudera Manager version 4.6,
and expanded tutorials, videos and user guides for enhanced Hadoop
training.

For delivering a Hadoop environment
directly, this is a way to learn and experiment with Hadoop. With the
integration of Search, it is easier to use. Powered by Apache Solr,
search enables users to perform full-text, natural-language search
queries directly on data stored in a Hadoop cluster. For the first
time, users can query data in Hadoop like they would with any online
search engine. Data analysts can also use the Impala capabilities to
execute SQL queries against data in Hadoop, eliminating the cost and
hassle of moving around large datasets.

In addition to the search capabilities,
it has been upgraded with the Hue 2.3 version, the open-source Web
UI. Created by the company in 2009 and developed over the years by
the Apache open source community, it provides a framework that helps
developers to create interactive web applications for Hadoop. It also
supports CDH 4.3 (Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop)
and CM 4.6. With tutorials, example videos and user guides included,
administrators and end users alike are able to learn and use Hadoop.

"For years, the Hadoop-curious
have downloaded our QuickStart VM as their first introduction to
Hadoop. We are continually updating and improving the VM, and we are
proud to have integrated Cloudera’s new groundbreaking Hadoop query
features, Impala and Search, into this latest version of QuickStart
VM," said Amr Awadallah, CTO, Cloudera. "QuickStart
VM enables beginners to get up and running in Hadoop quickly, while
more-experienced Hadoop users can enjoy experimenting with Cloudera’s
powerful new search and querying features. QuickStart VM is just one
more way we are helping more organizations to leverage the power of
Hadoop to get valuable business insights from all their data."

Features include: