- Role based access control for secure installations
- LDAP authentication support
- Better control over application instances with new operator tuning options
- Numerous bug fixes
- Install and launch applications with Application Packages
- Installer enhancements to support various Hadoop distributions
- Angular JS based new management console
- Improvements to log file viewing and tuple recording features
- HDFS based distributed hash table
- Optimized for fast access to high volume of small size and potentially unstructured streaming data
- Does not require any additional software installation or configuration
- New operators for Elastic Search, Solr, and Kinesis
- Various fixes for fault tolerance, partitioning, and idempotency for existing operators
- Demo application import and launch inside Console with Application Packages
- Hadoop services validation and status notification prior to application launch
- Documentation improvements