Karmasphere Application Framework
Karmasphere's core technology, the Karmasphere Application Framework, is an open platform that provides independence across Hadoop cluster infrastructure. It provides easy, one-click deployment across any cloud or cluster, and a rich and friendly user-interface to maximize productivity, discovery and insight.
The guiding principle of the Karmasphere Application Framework is to provide intuitive and portable access to the Big Data infrastructure of choice while making it fast and easy to implement and manage the desired analyses.
Reviewing the Karmasphere Application Framework from the ground up:
Karmasphere Client
Big Data professionals no longer have to worry about the details of working with the particular Hadoop software, service or version to which they have access. The Karmasphere Client provides enhanced connectivity that isolates Big Data professionals from the particular cloud implementation and simplifies the process of upgrading or switching from one Hadoop cluster type to another, whether simply doing a version upgrade or moving across cloud types.
Learn more about the Karmasphere Client.
Karmasphere Services
Karmasphere Services simplifies low-level control of MapReduce jobs and the Hadoop File System (HDFS) for the Big Data professional. Rather than dealing with low-level Hadoop management, Karmasphere Services provides cluster monitoring, job monitoring, and file system management through a high-level user environment. This not only saves time learning Hadoop, but also increases productivity when using Hadoop.
Language Support
Big Data professionals want to work with different analytical frameworks and languages to maximize their productivity. Java is the primary language developers use to deal with Hadoop clusters, but new and varied languages are emerging to meet different user requirements. Hive, for example, is emerging as a simple SQL-like language that enables business analysts to more easily take advantage of Hadoop implementations. Karmasphere supports an increasing variety of languages while maintaining the benefits of the entire Karmasphere Application Framework.
Integrated User Environment
The Karmasphere Application Framework enables a rich GUI to access all levels of the Hadoop application stack, from the job definition language to the operation of the job on the cluster. There is no need to learn command-line instructions or to struggle with the intricacies of a particular Hadoop implementation.