As a beginner, it depends on what you want to learn? Do you want to program MapReduce, just do some SQL queries to hadoop, or install, deploy and monitor a Hadoop cluster?
This article might help making a good decision: "spoilt for choice - how to choose the right Hadoop distribution" http://www.infoq.com/articles/BigDataPlatform Kai Sent from my iPhone > On 14.08.2014, at 11:58, Chris MacKenzie > <stu...@chrismackenziephotography.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using Hadoop since Christmas loosely and from May for an > Software engineering MSc at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. > I have written a genetic sequence alignment algorithm. > > I have installed Hadoop in various places including a 32 node cluster and > am using eclipse kepler sr 2 as an IDE. > > My current Hadoop version is 2.4.1 which I download as a tar from the > apache mirror servers. > > It¹s been a tough learning curve, but that has made the learning all the > more valuable. > > I believe using the straight Hadoop version has given insights that > proprietary builds wouldn¹t have. There are so many confusing issues that > crop up, it¹s easy to attach importance to trying to fix the an error > which masks another. With the proprietary versions it would be easy to > attach blame where it¹s not that build or this builds fault. > > Go with your heart but be prepared to work to solve the problems you > encounter. > > Buy Tom Whites book, it isn¹t perfect and a couple of years out of date > but it gives you enough detail and structure to build an impression you > can work from. The downloadable source code is a great help when trying to > get started. > > Good luck. > > > Regards, > > Chris MacKenzie > telephone: 0131 332 6967 > email: stu...@chrismackenziephotography.co.uk > corporate: www.chrismackenziephotography.co.uk > <http://www.chrismackenziephotography.co.uk/> > <http://plus.google.com/+ChrismackenziephotographyCoUk/posts> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismackenziephotography/> > > > > > > > From: "Adaryl \"Bob\" Wakefield, MBA" <adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com> > Reply-To: <user@hadoop.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:13 > To: <user@hadoop.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Started learning Hadoop. Which distribution is best for > native install in pseudo distributed mode? > > > He didn¹t ask for the best and nobody framed up their answer like that. He > asked what people were using. Out of the 10 responses only four of them > actually > answered his question. > > I¹ve been studying Hadoop for two months straight. Quite frankly, I wish > more people would ask for community input and what does what and how. > > Adaryl > "Bob" Wakefield, MBA > Principal > Mass Street > Analytics > 913.938.6685 > www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba > Twitter: > @BobLovesData > > From: Kilaru, Sambaiah <mailto:sambaiah_kil...@intuit.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1:10 PM > To: user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: Started learning Hadoop. Which distribution is best for > native install in pseudo distributed mode? > > > > > Engough wars on going on which is best. You choose one of it and try to > learn and there is nothing that x is better or y is better. > It is upto your choice. > > Thanks, > Sam > > From: Sebastiano Di Paola <sebastiano.dipa...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@hadoop.apache.org" <user@hadoop.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 6:28 > PM > To: "user@hadoop.apache.org" <user@hadoop.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Started learning Hadoop. Which > distribution is best for native install in pseudo distributed mode? > > > Hi, > I'm a newbie too and I'm not using any particular distribution. Just > download the component I need / want to try for my deploiment and use > them. > > It's a slow process but allows me to better understand what I'm > doing under the hood. > > Regards, > Seba > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM, mani kandan <mankand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Which distribution are you people using? Cloudera vs Hortonworks vs > Biginsights? > > > > > >
