Remove 'beta' verbiage from site Change-Id: I864b9fbbc1fc6c389ab4dc082e72a46cc99d9d68 Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/4473 Reviewed-by: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> Tested-by: Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org>
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/commit/ef53d3c1 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/tree/ef53d3c1 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/diff/ef53d3c1 Branch: refs/heads/gh-pages Commit: ef53d3c1c15fa214e711755de6910a3b5f7c3716 Parents: 9062ee6 Author: Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> Authored: Mon Sep 19 19:15:46 2016 -0700 Committer: Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> Committed: Tue Sep 20 03:24:01 2016 +0000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- faq.md | 40 ++++++++++++---------------------------- index.html | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/blob/ef53d3c1/faq.md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/faq.md b/faq.md index bdc6df5..b946ef7 100644 --- a/faq.md +++ b/faq.md @@ -45,21 +45,8 @@ workloads. #### Is Apache Kudu ready to be deployed into production yet? -We don't yet recommend this -- Kudu is currently in Beta. During the next few months we -might have to break backwards compatibility with our current on-the-wire or on-disk -formats or change public APIs. There is also still work to do to improve data durability -and consistency. Kudu is currently in a good state for using in a proof-of-concept -scenario for a future deployment. - -For more details on the Kudu Beta period, see the -[release notes](docs/release_notes.html#_about_the_kudu_public_beta). - -#### When can I expect GA or version 1.0? - -There is no set timeline for general availability (GA). We are looking forward to working -with the community to continue stabilizing and improving Kudu. We want to implement some -critical missing features such as security and fill in other gaps before releasing Kudu -1.0. +Yes! Although Kudu is still relatively new, as far as storage engines are considered, +it is ready for production workloads. #### Is Kudu open source? @@ -196,8 +183,7 @@ partitioning. #### Is there any limitation to the size of data that can be added to a column? There is no hard limit imposed by Kudu, but large values (10s of KB and above) -are likely to perform poorly and may cause stability issues in the current beta -release. +are likely to perform poorly and may cause stability issues in current releases. #### Does Kudu support dynamic partitioning? @@ -226,7 +212,7 @@ Kudu gains the following properties by using Raft consensus: sent to any of the replicas. If that replica fails, the query can be sent to another replica immediately. -During Kudu's beta period, those properties maybe not be fully implemented and +In current releases, some of these properties are not be fully implemented and may suffer from some deficiencies. See the answer to "[Is Kudu's consistency level tunable?](#is-kudus-consistency-level-tunable)" for more information. @@ -293,7 +279,7 @@ to bulk load performance of other systems. Kudu uses typed storage and currently does not have a specific type for semi- structured data such as JSON. Semi-structured data can be stored in a STRING or BINARY column, but large values (10s of KB or more) are likely to cause -performance or stability problems in the current beta release. +performance or stability problems in current versions. Fuller support for semi-structured types like JSON and protobuf will be added in the future, contingent on demand from early adopters. @@ -336,7 +322,7 @@ direction, for the following reasons: #### What frameworks are integrated with Kudu for data access? -Kudu is already integrated with Impala, MapReduce, and Spark (beta). Additional +Kudu is already integrated with Impala, MapReduce, and Spark. Additional frameworks are expected for GA with Hive being the current highest priority addition. @@ -368,9 +354,8 @@ required, but not more RAM than typical Hadoop worker nodes. #### Is the master node a single point of failure? -The beta release of Kudu includes only experimental support for master node -failover, with some known limitations. Kudu's first generally available -release will feature a highly available master process. +No. Kudu includes support for running multiple Master nodes, using the same Raft +consensus algorithm that is used for durability of data. #### Does Kudu require the use of SSDs? @@ -431,8 +416,7 @@ Parquet format using a statement like: INSERT INTO TABLE some_parquet_table SELECT * FROM kudu_table then use [distcp](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html) -to copy the Parquet data to another cluster. While Kudu is in beta, we're not -expecting people to deploy mission-critical workloads on it yet. +to copy the Parquet data to another cluster. #### Can the WAL transaction logs be used to build a disaster recovery site? @@ -488,9 +472,9 @@ As a true column store, Kudu is not as efficient for OLTP as a row store would b currently some implementation issues that hurt Kudu's performance on Zipfian distribution updates (see the YCSB results in the performance evaluation of our [draft paper](kudu.pdf). -Our intention with the Kudu beta is that if you have a _light_ OLTP-like workload, -it should work, but if you have mostly random accesses something like HBase is probably better. - +We anticipate that future releases will continue to improve performance for these workloads, +but Kudu is not designed to be a full replacement for OLTP stores for all workloads. Please +consider other storage engines such as Apache HBase or a traditional RDBMS. ### Indexes http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/blob/ef53d3c1/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index e383d5f..7d23aa2 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ active_nav: home <strong>fast analytics on fast data</strong>. </p> - <p>Currently, a limited-functionality version of Kudu is available as a Beta.</p> - - <a href="docs/installation.html" class="btn btn-info">Install the Beta</a> + <a href="docs/installation.html" class="btn btn-info">Install Kudu</a> <a href="docs/quickstart.html" class="btn btn-info">Get the Kudu Quickstart VM</a> </div>
