Understanding popular big data applications in EMR

There are several big data applications available in the Hadoop ecosystem and open source community, and EMR includes a few very popular ones that are very commonly used in big data use cases. The availability of different big data applications or components in your cluster depends on the EMR release you choose while launching the cluster. Each EMR release includes a different version of these applications and makes sure they are compatible with each other for smooth execution of the cluster and jobs.

EMR does include the most common or popular Hadoop interfaces in its recent releases and also does continuous updates to include new Hadoop interfaces as they gain popularity in the open source community. In addition to adding new big data applications or components, EMR also removes support for a few as they lack attention from the open source community or customers. For example, till EMR 3.11.x, you had the option to select Impala...