[APEXCORE-536] Upgrade Hadoop dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0
• Labels: roadmap
• Assignee: David Yan
• Reporter: Thomas Weise
• Created: 15/Sep/16 14:38
• Updated: 10/Dec/16 18:42
• Resolved: 11/Oct/16 01:08

Description

Currently Apex depends on Hadoop 2.2 and runs on all later 2.x version. Hadoop 2.2 is quite old, most Apex users have more recent Hadoop installs. Latest distro releases are based on 2.6 and 2.7. There are several important features that were added in Hadoop since 2.2 that Apex should be able to leverage.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #404