Capability to create volume snapshots

A volume snapshot captures the state of a volume's directories, MapR-DB tables, and files at an exact point in time. You can use them for:

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 MapR-DB 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, such as Apache Mahout, 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 MapR-DB 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.