IBM Big Replicate V2.15.1

IBM Big Replicate V2.15.1 helps organizations simplify data replication and data migration for their most critical business data and applications

IBM Big Replicate is replication technology that gives consistent data across all business application environments, regardless of geographic location, data platform architecture, or cloud storage provider.

Built to maintain data consistency across platforms and locations, and for changing data at petabyte scale, V2.15.1 enables deployment of clusters on any combination of Hadoop distributions, Hadoop Compatible File Systems (HCFS), and Cloud Object Storage.

New capabilities include:

Big Replicate for Hadoop V2.15.1 enables active-active data replication between Hadoop clusters, including between cross-distribution clusters.
Big Replicate for Object Stores V2.15.1 enables the active replication of data from Hadoop data clusters to object storage targets. It enables Hadoop users to replicate data and metadata efficiently, simply, and confidently.

They include the following new features:

Add and remove nodes. WANdisco Fusion nodes can be added and removed from a deployment without disrupting operations.
This functionality lets an administrator isolate and remove a failed or stopped Fusion server, enabling continued operations even in the event of unrecoverable instance failure.
It allows new Fusion servers to be introduced so they can contribute to operation, potentially in response to a removed server or to add horizontal capacity to a deployed Fusion environment.

The following plug-in packages updated to provide compatibility with Big Replicate V2.15.1:

Big Replicate for Hive V6.0 is an add-on to Big Replicate for Hadoop that enables the active-active replication of the Hive metastore, which stores the metadata for all tables and databases that are created in Hive.
It enables to replicate Hive metadata as it changes in any cluster, regardless of where and when changes are made.
All applications have access to the same Hive tables wherever they are required.
Big Replicate for Security V5.0 is an add-on to Big Replicate for Hadoop that coordinates and replicates security policies between separate database security policy provider instances to maintain common policy enforcement in each one.
It helps to ensure consistent policy definition and enforcement across multiple clusters that share access to the same data.
You have the choice to deploy either Apache Sentry or Apache Ranger, but policy replication must occur between the same policy provider.
Big Replicate for Backup V5.0 is an add-on to Big Replicate for Hadoop that enhances your environment by enabling backup and data restoration capabilities to help eliminate administrative error or malicious activity causing data loss in a replicated environment, retain data that has been modified, and restore data that has been modified in error.

Planned availability date: January 28, 2020