On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 18:15, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: >> All, >> Steve Loughran has done some great work on defining what can be called >> Hadoop at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Defining%20Hadoop. After some >> cleanup from Noirin and Shane, I think we've got a really good base. I'd >> like a vote to approve the content (at the current revision 12) and put the >> content on our web site. >> >> Clearly, I'm +1. >> >> -- Owen > > I'd like to make another suggestion. Currently we call two types of > things powered by Apache Hadoop: > > 1. Something that runs on Hadoop (eg HBase or Karmasphere)
To be completely precise Karmasphere doesn't 'run on Hadoop'. Their products "integrate with a variety of Hadoop distributions and related technologies..." as you can see here http://karmasphere.com/Miscellaneous/overview.html. Although in case of HBase you right ;) Cos > 2. Something that includes Hadoop artifacts/source code > > Shouldn't we distinguish between these two, such that the 2nd is not > powered by Hadoop? Eg tc server is not powered by Apache Tomcat right? > > Apologies for having discussion on a vote thread but this is the first > time I've seen the current revision and it seems reasonable to have an > opportunity to discuss a specific revision before voting on it. > > Thanks, > Eli >
