Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-04 Thread robert
2012/3/2 Kunaal wrote: I am doing a general poll on what are the most prevalent pain points that people run into with Hadoop? These could be performance related (memory usage, IO latencies), usage related or anything really. My biggest frustration with core Hadoop after the last year or so

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-04 Thread Arun C Murthy
On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Harsh J wrote: Since you ask about anything in general, when I forayed into using Hadoop, my biggest pain was lack of documentation clarity and completeness over the MR and DFS user APIs (and other little points). It would be nice to have some work done to have

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-04 Thread Michael Segel
What? The lack of documentation is what made Hadoop, really HBase, a lot of fun:-) You know what they say... Not guts, no glory... I'm sorry, while I agree w Harsh, I just don't want to sound like some old guy talking about how when they were young, they had to walk in chest high snow, in a

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-03 Thread Jie Li
I found a related question here: http://www.quora.com/Hadoop-Operability/Is-Hadoop-now-easy-to-use-If-not-what-assistance-do-most-users-need Jie On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Russell Jurney russell.jur...@gmail.comwrote: +6.28318531 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Leonardo Urbina

Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Kunaal
I am doing a general poll on what are the most prevalent pain points that people run into with Hadoop? These could be performance related (memory usage, IO latencies), usage related or anything really. The goal is to look for what areas this platform could benefit the most in the near future.

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Mike Spreitzer
Interesting question. Do you want to be asking those who use Hadoop --- or those who find it too painful to use? Regards, Mike From: Kunaal kunalbha...@alumni.cmu.edu To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Date: 03/02/2012 11:23 AM Subject:Hadoop pain points? Sent

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Raj Vishwanathan
Lol! Raj From: Mike Spreitzer mspre...@us.ibm.com To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Hadoop pain points? Interesting question.  Do you want to be asking those who use Hadoop --- or those who find it too

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Kunaal
? Regards, Mike From: Kunaal kunalbha...@alumni.cmu.edu To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Date: 03/02/2012 11:23 AM Subject:Hadoop pain points? Sent by:kunaalbha...@gmail.com I am doing a general poll on what are the most prevalent pain points that people run

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Iván de Prado
: 03/02/2012 11:23 AM Subject:Hadoop pain points? Sent by:kunaalbha...@gmail.com I am doing a general poll on what are the most prevalent pain points that people run into with Hadoop? These could be performance related (memory usage, IO latencies), usage related

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Harsh J
Since you ask about anything in general, when I forayed into using Hadoop, my biggest pain was lack of documentation clarity and completeness over the MR and DFS user APIs (and other little points). It would be nice to have some work done to have one example or semi-example for every single

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Mohit Anchlia
+1 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: Since you ask about anything in general, when I forayed into using Hadoop, my biggest pain was lack of documentation clarity and completeness over the MR and DFS user APIs (and other little points). It would be nice to

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Russell Jurney
+2 Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: Since you ask about anything in general, when I forayed into using Hadoop, my biggest pain was lack of

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Leonardo Urbina
+3.14159265358979 Sent from my phone On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Russell Jurney russell.jur...@gmail.com wrote: +2 Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Harsh J

Re: Hadoop pain points?

2012-03-02 Thread Russell Jurney
+6.28318531 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Leonardo Urbina lurb...@mit.edu wrote: +3.14159265358979 Sent from my phone On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Russell Jurney russell.jur...@gmail.com wrote: +2 Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Mohit Anchlia