What technology is used for Statistica Enterprise HDFS ?

What technology is used for Statistica Enterprise HDFS ?

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Spotfire Statistica 13.1 and higher

Description

What technology is used for connection to HDFS, which is available in Statistica Enterprise -> Hadoop distributed file system.

 

Issue/Introduction

What technology is used for Statistica Enterprise HDFS ?

Resolution

The technology Statistica uses to connect to HDFS is TCP through WebHDFS Rest API.

Statistica uses the WinInet Windows API to facilitate the TCP communication between Statistica and the HDFS server.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385483(v=vs.85).aspx

The data communication is formatted to meet the WebHDFS REST API: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/webhdfs.html