Selecting a Cluster Type

Elastic MapReduce (EMR) provides three types of clusters for you to choose from based on your business needs.

• Hadoop cluster: comes in two editions — Standard and TianQiong. A Hadoop cluster provides open source big data components such as Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Spark, Flink, and Presto. It is mainly used for offline data analysis, real-time data analysis, ad hoc, and other big data processing scenarios.
• Druid cluster: provides the Druid component, which is a distributed time series database and mainly used for data aggregations and queries based on time series.
• ClickHouse cluster: provides the ClickHouse component, which is an open source column-oriented database and mainly used for the analysis of well-structured, clear, and immutable events or log streams.

Selecting a Billing Mode

Billing mode for EMR clusters:

• Pay-as-you-go: all nodes in a cluster are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis. This is suitable for clusters that exist for a short time or periodically.

For information on node types, see Node Type Description.

Selecting a Model and Specification

EMR offers a wide variety of CVM models, including EMR Standard, EMR Compute, EMR High IO, EMR MEM-optimized, and EMR Big Data. If you need the CPM model, please submit a ticket to us.

Note：

• A high availability (HA) Hadoop or Druid cluster contains at least eight nodes, including two master nodes, three common nodes, and three core nodes. A non-HA Hadoop or Druid cluster adopts single-replica storage, which can be used for testing but is not recommended in production environment. It contains at least three nodes, including one master node and at least two core nodes.
• An HA ClickHouse cluster contains at least five nodes, including two core nodes and three common nodes. A non-HA ClickHouse cluster adopts single-replica storage, which can be used for testing but is not recommended in production environment. It contains at least one core node.

You can choose a model based on your business needs and budget.

• If you require low latency for offline compute, we recommend you select a model with local disks or the Big Data model.
• If you need to use the real-time database HBase, we recommend you select the EMR High IO model with local SSD disks for optimal performance.

Node specification recommendations

Network and Security

To ensure the network security, the EMR cluster is placed in a VPC, and a security group policy is added to the VPC. In addition, to ensure easy access to the WebUI of Hadoop, a public IP is enabled for one of the master nodes and the node is billed by traffic. A public IP is not enabled for router nodes by default. However, you can bind a router node to an EIP on the CVM console to enable a public IP for it.

Note：

• A public IP is enabled for master nodes when a cluster is created. You can disable it as needed.
• Enabling a public IP for master nodes is mainly for SSH login and component WebUI access.
• Master nodes with a public IP enabled are billed by traffic with a bandwidth of up to 5 Mbps. You can adjust the network on the console after creating a cluster.