Thanks everyone for your replies. I knew Cloudera had their release but never knew Y! had one too...
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hey Rita, > > All software developed by Cloudera for CDH is Apache (v2) licensed and > freely available. See these docs [1,2] for more info. > > We publish source packages (which includes the packaging source) and > source tarballs, you can find these at > http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/. See the CHANGES.txt file (or the > cloudera directory in the tarballs) for the specific patches that have > been applied. > > CDH contains a number of projects (Hadoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, Oozie, > Flume, Sqoop, Whirr, Hue, ZooKeeper, etc). Most have a small handful > of patches applied (often there's only a couple additional patches as > we've rolled an upstream dot release that folded in the delta from the > previous release). The vast majority of the patches to Hadoop come > from the Apache security and append [3, 4] branches. Aside from those > the rest are critical backports and bug fixes. In general, we develop > upstream first. > > Hope this clarifies things. > > Thanks, > Eli > > 1. https://wiki.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Apache+License > 2. https://wiki.cloudera.com/display/DOC/CDH3+Installation+Guide > 3. > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20-security > 4. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20-append > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been wondering if I should use CDH ( > http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop/) > > instead of the standard Hadoop distribution. > > > > What do most people use? Is CDH free? do they provide the tars or does it > > provide source code and I simply compile? Can I have some data nodes as > CDH > > and the rest as regular Hadoop? > > > > > > I am asking this because so far I noticed a serious bug (IMO) in the > > decommissioning process ( > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-user/201103.mbox/%3cAANLkTikPKGt5zw1QGLse+LPzUDP7Mom=ty_mxfcuo...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > ) > > > > > > > > > > -- > > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- > > > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
