Snapshots

Since HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables are created in volumes, you can use a volume snapshot to capture the state of a volume's directories, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables, and files at an exact point in time.

Use volume snapshots for rollbacks, hot backups, model training, and real-time data analysis management.

Rollback from errors

Application errors or inadvertent user errors can mistakenly delete data or modify data in an unexpected way. With volume snapshots, you can rollback your HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables to a known, well-defined state.

Hot backups

You can create backups of table data on the fly for auditing or governance compliance.

Model training

Machine-learning frameworks can use snapshots to enable a reproducible and auditable model training process. Snapshots allow the training process to work against a preserved image of the training data from a precise moment in time. In most cases, the use of snapshots requires no additional storage and snapshots are taken in less than one second.

Managing real-time data analysis

By using snapshots, query engines such as Apache Drill can produce precise synchronic summaries of data sources subject to constant updates, such as sensor data or social media streams. Using a snapshot of your HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database data for such analyses allows very precise comparisons to be done across multiple ever-changing data sources without the need to stop real-time data ingestion.

See MapR Snapshots for more details.