What Is Required to Run SPD Server with Hadoop?

You must license the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 5.2 or later.

You must install SPD Server by following the installation instructions in SAS Scalable Performance Data Server: Administrator’s Guide.

To use SPD Server 5.3 with a Hadoop cluster, SPD Server must be on a Linux x64 or a Microsoft Windows x64 operating system. (Note that to use SPD Server 5.2 with a Hadoop cluster, SPD Server must be on a Linux x64 operating system.)

SPD Server 5.3 supports the following Hadoop distributions, with or without Kerberos:

To access a Hadoop cluster, the SPD Server administrator must specify Hadoop parameter file options in the libnames.parm parameter file and the spdsserv.parm parameter file and update the rc.spds script. The Hadoop parameter file options specify that the domain can access data in HDFS and make the Hadoop cluster configuration files and Hadoop distribution JAR files available to SPD Server. For more information, see Enabling SPD Server with Hadoop.