SAS Viya Compatibility with Hadoop Question

[jennifers_sas]

I have a customer that just deployed MapR 6.2 (HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric).  Asking this question for them.

When is SAS Viya is planning to be compatible with Hadoop MapR 6.2 (HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric)?

Our understanding for SAS 9.4 product:

• Current SAS version relies on Java 8.
• MapR is currently using Java 11.
• SAS relies on native client JAR libraries to interop between it and other services and the libraries MapR is using/providing (Java 11 based) aren’t backwards compatible to Java 8.

So it seems like the integration with MapR 6.2 will work when SAS will add support for Java 11.

[vloiseau]

Hi,

You're right, you have to use  SAS 9.4M8 with the SAS Private JRE 11 : 

"Beginning with SAS 9.4M8, generally available in the first quarter of 2023, the SAS Private JRE is based on Java 11 technology for Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems

https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-java.html"

The fact is that SAS uses JAVA Classes of the MAPR (Ezmeral Data Fabric) Java libraries taken directly taken from the servers with Hadoop tracer script.

I believe it cannot use directly MAPR POSIX Client (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/62/MapR-DB/Installing-mapr-client.html) directly, can you confirm ?