In my experience, the Cloudera distributions are excellent, actively developed, and well-supported.
Zak On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Mark Kerzner <markkerz...@gmail.com> wrote: > My personal experience led me to prefer cloudera. Can't talk for every > situation, but for me the hadoop distro had many bugs and was unreliable. > > Mark > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, prasenjit <prasen....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> It seems there are 2 hadoop-ec2 scripts: >> >> 1) One which comes along with the hadoop distro : >> <hadoop>/src/contrib/ec2/bin/hadoop-ec2 >> >> 2) Another which is downloadable from >> >> http://cloudera-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudera-for-hadoop-on-ec2-py-0.3.0-beta.tar.gz >> and is from cloudera folks. >> >> I prefer using the base hadoop, as I want to avoid dependencies on >> boto/simplejson which is required for (2). My question is are they planned >> to kept in sync. Which one is under active development and hence suggested >> ( given my preference for hadoop's contrib package ) for stable use ? >> >> -Thanks, >> Prasen >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Which-instance-type-on-Amazon-EC2--tp25667297p27206207.html >> Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >
