Aaron, Thanks for your reply. I will sure let you know how it goes.
- Rahul On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rahul, > > Welcome! Blur is a young incubator project and with that there is not a > lot of documentation. Yet. But we do have a lot of code. :-) > > Blur uses HDFS for storing indexes, MapReduce for bulk indexing, Thrift for > RPC and ZooKeeper for state, and of course Lucene for search. Yes Blur can > and should run along side a standard Hadoop install (MapReduce + HDFS). It > currently works with the 1.0.x version or CDH3 from Cloudera. I'm sure we > can get it to work with 2.0.x and CDH4, it just hasn't happen yet. However > the only dependency to run Blur on a single machine is ZooKeeper. HDFS is > required for a cluster. > > To get you started. > > git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-blur.git > > # we are currently focusing on getting 0.1.5 to a releasable state. > git checkout 0.1.5 > > In the checkout you will find a README.md that is a bit out of date with > the code examples but the general theme is correct. For more examples take > a look at the blur-testsuite project, there are a lot of code examples in > there to get you started. > > To build the project into a tarball that can be extracted and executed. > > run "mvn install" from the src/ directory. Once it has successfully > executed all the tests and built everything you will find a tar.gz file in > the target/ directory in the distribution project. > > Before you can run Blur, Apache ZooKeeper needs to be running. A default > install will work. > > After extracting the Blur tar.gz file you should be able to run the > bin/start-all.sh and it should start a Blur controller and a shard server > on your local machine. > > I would love to hear how your initial compile and install goes, because we > could use this thread and any information that is exchanged to create a > nice little wiki page for 0.1.5. > > Thank! > > Aaron > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:17 PM, rahul challapalli < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am new to blur and even ASF in terms of contributing back to a > project. I > > have decent knowledge about hadoop and mapreduce but completely new to > > search. I come from a Java/PHP background. I am looking for some > direction > > in setting up blur on my local machine. I have a single node hadoop > > installation on my Mac OS X Lion. Is it an issue if I have HDFS, > MapReduce > > daemons running alongside blur on the same machine. I would greatly > > appreciate if you can refer me to some setup document as well as an > insight > > into the architecture of blur. Thank You. > > > > - Rahul > > >
