About Release 8.0.0
This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric release 8.0.0, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
8.0.0 Installation
This section contains information about installing HPE Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
8.0.0 Upgrade
This section describes how to upgrade HPE Data Fabric software.
8.0.0 Data Fabric
HPE Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
8.0.0 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
8.0.0 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
- Application Development Process
  Before you start developing applications on the HPE Data Fabric platform, consider how you will get the data into the platform, the storage format of the data, the type of processing or modeling that is required, and how the data will be accessed.
- File Store and Apps
  The following sections provide information about accessing the File Store with C and Java applications.
- HPE Data Fabric Database and Apps
  This section contains information about developing client applications for JSON and key-value tables.
- Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service
  HPE Data Fabric Streams supports Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service. Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service is a TCP/IP service that emulates a Kafka cluster backed by HPE Data Fabric Streams. The service makes it possible for Apache Kafka clients written in any programming language to access topics in HPE Data Fabric Streams.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- HPE Data Fabric Streams and Apps
  HPE Data Fabric Streams brings integrated publish and subscribe messaging to HPE Data Fabric.
- MapReduce and Apps
  This section contains information associated with developing YARN applications.
- Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric
  This section describes how to leverage the capabilities of the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric.
- Ecosystem Components
  The following sections provide information about each open-source project that is supported by the HPE Data Fabric.
  - Ecosystem Packs
  - Apache Airflow
    This topic provides an overview of Apache Airflow on HPE Data Fabric.
    - Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Airflow Services
      This topic describes how to start, stop, and restart Airflow services on HPE Data Fabric.
    - Considerations for Using Airflow CLI Commands
      Describes security considerations for using Airflow CLI commands.
    - Configuring a Remote Database for Airflow
      This topic describes how to configure a remote database for Airflow on the HPE Data Fabric.
    - Configuring SSL Security for Airflow
      This topic describes the security configurations for Airflow on HPE Data Fabric.
    - Configuring MapR-SASL and SSL for Hooks Connections
      This topic decribes configuration options for MapR-SASL and SSL for hook connections in Airflow.
    - Mapping Keycloak Roles to Airflow
      This topic describes the mapping of Keycloak roles to Airflow roles.
    - Airflow Providers
      This topic describes the Apache Airflow Provider packages available in HPE Data Fabric.
  - AsyncHBase
  - Cascading
  - Apache Drill
  - Apache Flink
  - Hadoop
  - HBase
  - HBase Client and HPE Data Fabric Database Binary Tables
  - HCatalog
  - Hive
  - HttpFS
  - Hue
  - Livy
    Apache Livy is primarily used to provide integration between Hue and Spark.
  - HPE Data Fabric Streams Clients and Tools
    Describes the supported HPE Data Fabric Streams tools and clients.
  - NiFi
    This topic provides an overview of Apache NiFi on HPE Data Fabric.
  - OTel
    This topic provides an overview of OpenTelemetry on HPE Data Fabric.
  - Apache Polaris
  - Ranger
  - Apache Spark
  - YARN
  - Zeppelin
- Maven and the HPE Data Fabric
  This section discusses topics associated with Maven and the HPE Data Fabric.
- Developer's Reference
  This section contains in-depth information for the developer.
- API Documentation
  HPE Data Fabric supports public APIs for file system, HPE Data Fabric Database, and HPE Data Fabric Streams. These APIs are available for application-development purposes.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other Data Fabric version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Interface to HPE Data Fabric Database

Airflow provides an interface to HPE Data Fabric Database by using the Providers.

See Provider examples of HPE Data Fabric Database at <airflow_home>/build/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/airflow/providers/ezmeral/database/example_dags/.

Hooks

BinaryDbCliHook: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.hooks.binary_shell; Description: This hook is a wrapper around the hbase shell command that must have hbase binary in the PATH.
JsonDbCliHook: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.hooks.json_shell; Description: This hook is a wrapper around the mapr dbshell command.
EzTableHook: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.hooks.table; Description: This hook is a wrapper around the maprcli table command.

Operators

BinaryDbCliOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.binary_shell; Description: Executes HPE Data Fabric Database Binary hbase shell command.
JsonDbCliOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.json_shell; Description: Executes HPE Data Fabric Database Binary mapr dbshell command.
CreateEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Creates HPE Data Fabric Database table.
DropEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Drops HPE Data Fabric Database table.
ImportJsonEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Imports HPE Data Fabric Database JSON table.
ExportJsonEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Exports HPE Data Fabric Database JSON table.
ImportBinaryEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Imports HPE Data Fabric Database Binary table.
ExportBinaryEzTableOperator: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.operators.table; Description: Exports HPE Data Fabric Database Binary table.

Sensors

EzTableSensor: Python path: airflow.providers.ezmeral.database.sensors.table; Description: Waits for the table to show up inHPE Data Fabric Database.

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HPE Data Fabric 8.0.0 Software Documentation
Abstract	This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric Software version 8.0.0 including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated bundled ecosystem components and drivers.
Published	January 2026
Edition	8.0.0
Topic last updated	2022-02-07