Forrester did this, more or less. http://www.forrester.com/The+Forrester+Wave+Enterprise+Hadoop+Solutions+Q1+2012/fulltext/-/E-RES60755
They want money for this. On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Christian Schäfer <syrious3...@yahoo.de>wrote: > I think a good starting point for that distribution guide would be a > feature matrix where all reasonable distributions could be compaired. > > > There could be metrics for cross cutting concerns like performance, > security, etc. referring to real benchmarks. > Upon this one could derive (maybe by additional explainations) which > distribution fits in a certain use case the best. > > Though, most important is that this comparison is not biased but > indepedent. > > regards > Chris > > > ________________________________ > Von: Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> > An: general@hadoop.apache.org > Gesendet: 5:45 Freitag, 21.September 2012 > Betreff: Re: Choosing a Hadoop distribution > > Thanks, that all seems quite reasonable I suppose. > > Cheers! > > On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:22 , Aaron Eng wrote: > > >> I'm tasked with creating a guide that instructs on how to choose a > Hadoop > > distribution from the handful of common options. > >> Does anyone have any thoughts on what criteria might govern such a > > decision? > > > > What problem(s) are you trying to solve with Hadoop (and related > projects)? > > What are your expectations of the technology? > > > > The details beyond that level could take many, many pages to cover. > > > > Not all Hadoop distributions are tested the same way, packaged with the > > same components, > etc. Not all components of a given Hadoop distribution > > work with other Hadoop distributions. There are a lot of common things > > between distributions which is probably why its difficult to articulate > how > > to choose one over the another. So when you look at the problem you are > > trying to solve and your expectations of the technology, many things may > > seem relatively equal and hence you may need to get into some significant > > level of detail to pick something that best solves your problem. In some > > cases it may be very straightforward as to whether a distribution will > meet > > your requirements. In other cases, things may look relatively equal > across > > the board until you drill down to a point where you find differentiation > > (or maybe you dont find it). But those would be my critera, articulate > the > > problem and expectations and compare functionality > until you find > > differentiation. > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> > wrote: > > > >> I'm tasked with creating a guide that instructs on how to choose a > Hadoop > >> distribution from the handful of common options. I'm finding this > rather > >> perplexing. While some of the venders offer additional management > software > >> (Cloudera Manager is an example) I'm unclear whether those packages > could > >> be installed and run irregardless of the underlying Hadoop distribution > or > >> if they are exclusively compatible with their vender's distribution (or > if > >> there's some crossover). I'm also unclear on any other basis for > >> comparison. For example HortonWorks originated HCatalog (to the best > of my > >> > understanding), but that doesn't necessarily mean one needs to use the HW > >> Hadoop dist. to use HCatalog since it's just a public Apache project > anyway > >> at this point. I'm sure similar statements could be made about MapR or > >> Greenplum (although I thin Greenplum's Hadoop uses MapR's M5 anyway so > >> again, the decision-making process in such a case seems baffling). > >> > >> And then there's the option of installing the Apache version directly, > >> always on the table I suppose. > >> > >> Does anyone have any thoughts on what criteria might govern such a > >> decision? I'm not trying to get into an argument about which > distribution > >> is best, I'm not even looking for defenses or arguments for one > >> distribution or another, but rather a notion of what the criteria for > >> basing such a decision might be. > >> > >> > Thanks. > >> > >> Cheers! > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "And what if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making > God > madder and madder!" > -- Homer Simpson > > ________________________________________________________________________________ >
