Question-141: What are all the interfaces available with the Cloudera Altus?

Answer: Currently there are following 3 interfaces available

• CLI: Command Line Interface
• SDK for Java 
• Web User Interface

And using all above three we can 

• Create and Manage environments
• Create and Manage Clusters
• Run Jobs
• Performing tasks of the Altus itself

Question-142: What are all the services available for Cloudera Altus?

Answer: There are mainly three services available as of now, which can be used for your different kind of workloads.

• Altus Data Engineering Service
• Altus Data Warehouse Service
• Altus Shared Data Experience (SDX) Service

Question-143: What is the use of Altus Data Engineering Service?

Answer: Using the Altus Data Engineering service you can create Cluster, run jobs which are related to Data Science and Data Engineering related. You can have any of the following distribution engine

• Hive
• Spark
• Hive on Spark
• MapReduce2(MR2)

And submit the jobs, which can be

• ETL
• Machine Learning
• Large Scale Data Processing

Question-144: What is the use of Altus Warehouse Service?

Answer: Altus Data Warehouse service helps you to create the Clusters which runs the Impala SQL engine to access data in your Cloud Storage for business analysis and reporting. There are following options available to access and analyze the data.

• Query editor: To query the data
• ODBC/JDBC connector: To connect your existing business intelligence tools. And query the data. 

Question-145: What is Altus Share Data Experience (SDX) service?

Answer: If you are running multiple clusters and workloads and wanted to have a consistent view of the data across all the clusters. Then Altus SDX namespace externalizes cluster metadata into a shared long running service and this service is available to multiple clusters and workloads running in the public Cloud.