Consistency in Apache Kudu, Part 1

Posted 18 Sep 2017 by David Alves

In this series of short blog posts we will introduce Kudu’s consistency model, its design and ultimate goals, current features, and next steps. On the way, we’ll shed some light on the more relevant components and how they fit together.

In Part 1 of the series (this one), we’ll cover motivation and design trade-offs, the end goals and the current status.

Apache Kudu 1.5.0 released

Posted 08 Sep 2017 by Dan Burkert

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.5.0!

Apache Kudu 1.5.0 is a minor release which offers several new features, improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes.

Highlights include:

Apache Kudu 1.4.0 released

Posted 13 Jun 2017 by Todd Lipcon

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.4.0!

Apache Kudu 1.4.0 is a minor release which offers several new features, improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes.

Highlights include:

Apache Kudu 1.3.1 released

Posted 19 Apr 2017 by Todd Lipcon

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.3.1!

Apache Kudu 1.3.1 is a bug fix release which fixes critical issues discovered in Apache Kudu 1.3.0. In particular, this fixes a bug in which data could be incorrectly deleted after certain sequences of node failures. Several other bugs are also fixed. See the release notes for details.

Users of Kudu 1.3.0 are encouraged to upgrade to 1.3.1 immediately.

  • Download the Kudu 1.3.1 source release
  • Convenience binary artifacts for the Java client and various Java integrations (eg Spark, Flume) are also now available via the ASF Maven repository.