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About MapR 6.1
This site contains the main documentation for Version 6.1 of the MapR Converged Data Platform, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference information.
6.1 Installation
This section contains information about installing and upgrading MapR software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a MapR cluster.
6.1 MapR Data Platform
MapR Data Platform is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
- MapR XD Distributed File and Object Store
  MapR XD Distributed File and Object Store is a distributed file system for data storage, data management, and data protection. MapR XD supports mounting and cluster access via NFS and FUSE-based POSIX clients (basic, platinum, or PACC) and also supports access and management via HDFS APIs.
- MapR Database
  MapR Database is an enterprise-grade, high-performance, NoSQL database management system that you can use for real-time, operational analytics.
- MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka
  MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka brings integrated publish and subscribe messaging to the MapR Converged Data Platform.
  - Architecture
    Streams contain topics that have logical collections of messages.
  - Producers
    Producers are data-generating applications, such as sensors in automobiles or activity loggers in servers. Producers create messages with the collected data and publish the messages to MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics, specifically, to MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topic-partitions.
  - Consumers
    Consumers are applications that you create such as analytics applications, reporting tools, or enterprise dashboards.
  - Stream Replication
    You can replicate streams to other MapR clusters worldwide, or to other streams within a MapR cluster.
    - Modes of Stream Replication
      You can replicate streams in one of two replication modes. You specify the mode per source-replica pair.
    - Replica Autosetup for Streams
      The option to automatically set up stream replication, also known as replica autosetup, performs the steps to set up and start the replication of streams. The replica autosetup option is available through the Control System and the CLI.
    - States of Stream Replication
      The replication state indicates when stream replication is in progress and it also displays the status of operations related to replica autosetup with directcopy. The maprcli stream replica list command displays the following replication states.
    - Security for Stream Replication
      Describes where security can be implemented for stream replication.
    - Gateways and Stream Replication
      When replicating streams, MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka replicates messages that are published to a source stream. Gateways are services that receive messages from source streams and publish them in replica streams.
  - Stream Security
    The adminperm, copyperm, comsumeperm, produceperm, and topicperm security permissions protect topics in a stream from unauthorized access. In addition, MapR supports user impersonation.
- MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes
  This section describes the MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes, which include the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for multiple container-orchestration systems, and the FlexVolume driver for Kubernetes.
- Cluster Management
  Provides a synopsis of the various cluster components and their management.
- Security
  Provides an overview of the MapR security features.
- YARN
- Client Connections
  The following sections describe how a client connects to local and remote MapR clusters.
6.1 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
6.1 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and MapR Data Platform products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: MapR Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other MapR version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Modes of Stream Replication

You can replicate streams in one of two replication modes. You specify the mode per source-replica pair.

Asynchronous replication

In this replication mode, MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka confirms to producers that messages are published after the messages are placed in partitions. Messages are replicated in the background. Therefore, the latency of message publishing is not affected by the time required for the network round trip between the source cluster and the destination cluster.

This type of replication is well-suited for clusters that are geographically separated in wide-area networks.

Asynchronous replication is the default replication mode.

Synchronous replication

In this replication mode, MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka confirms to producers that messages have been placed in partitions only after the messages are sent to a gateway in the destination cluster.

Due to the confirmations that MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka receives on source clusters, synchronous replication is especially well-suited for creating a backup of your data for disaster recovery.

When the latency of a replication stream is high, MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka switches to asynchronous replication temporarily so that producers are not blocked indefinitely. After the latency is sufficiently reduced, MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka switches back to synchronous replication.

The same switching from synchronous to asynchronous replication occurs if all gateways fail. MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka does not resume synchronous replication until a new gateway is established or at least one of the failed gateways is restarted.