The Open Data Platform Initiative (ODPi), a non-profit consortium of big data industry leaders focused on standardization and simplification of the big data ecosystem, announced the release of its ODPi runtime specification and test suite in order to ensure that the applications will work across multiple Apache Hadoop distributions.
Descending from Apache Hadoop 2.7, the runtime specification which includes HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce components and it is part of the common reference platform ODPi Core.
The ODPi test framework and self-certification align closely with the Apache Software Foundation by leveraging Apache Bigtop for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration. More than half the code available in the latest Bishop release originates in ODPi.
The runtime specifications and test suits were designed in order to ensure the interoperability across the Hadoop ecosystem. The lack of standards which the ODPi believes that the current ecosystem is slowed by fragmented and duplicated efforts.
Alan Gates, co-founder of Hortonworks, an ODPi member organization, states,
“We aim to speed Hadoop adoption through ecosystem interoperability rooted in open source so enterprise customers can reap the benefits of increased choice with more modern data applications and solutions. We are pleased to see ODPi’s first release become available to the ecosystem and look forward to our continued involvement to accelerate the adoption of modern data applications.”
The published specification also includes rules and guidelines on incorporating additional non-breaking features, which are allowed provided that the source code is made available through the relevant Apache community processes.
Rob Thomas, vice president of product development, IBM Analytics, states,
“Big Data is the key to enterprises welcoming the cognitive era and there’s a need across the board for advancements in the Hadoop ecosystem to ensure companies can get the most out of their deployments in the most efficient ways possible. With the ODPi Runtime Specification, developers can write their application once and run it across a variety of distributions – ensuring more efficient applications that can generate the insights necessary for business change.”
Milind Bhandarkar, founder and CEO of ODPi member organization Ampool, states,
