is an application service that manages data preparation within the
Enterprise Data Preparation
application.
When an analyst prepares data in a project, the
Interactive Data Preparation Service
connects to the Data Preparation repository to store worksheet metadata. The service connects to the Hadoop cluster to read sample data or all data from the Hive table, depending on the size of the data. The service connects to the HDFS system in the Hadoop cluster to store the sample data being prepared in the worksheet.
The
Interactive Data Preparation Service
uses an Oracle database, a MySQL database, or a MariaDB database for the data preparation repository. You must configure a local storage location for data preparation file storage on the node on which the service runs.
You can create the
Interactive Data Preparation Service
when you install
Enterprise Data Preparation
, or you can use the Administrator tool to create the service after installation. Create the