The snapshots feature of the Apache Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) enables you to capture point-in-time copies of the file system and protect your important data against corruption, user-, or application errors. This feature is available in all versions of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

Ozone is an Apache Software Foundation project to build a distributed storage platform that caters to the demanding performance needs of analytical workloads, content distribution, and object storage use cases. The Ozone Manager is a critical component of Ozone. It is a replicated, highly-available service that is responsible for managing the metadata for all objects stored in Ozone. As Ozone scales to exabytes of data, it is important to ensure that Ozone Manager can perform at scale.