also, consider apache bigtop. That is the apache upstream Hadoop initiative, and it comes with smoke tests+ Puppet recipes for setting up your own Hadoop distro from scratch.
IMHO ... If learning or building your own tooling around Hadoop , bigtop is ideal. If interested in purchasing support , than the vendor distros are a good gateway. > On Aug 12, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Aaron Eng <a...@maprtech.com> wrote: > > On that note, 2 is also misleading/incomplete. You might want to explain > which specific features you are referencing so the original poster can figure > out if those features are relevant. The inverse of 2 is also true, things > like consistent snapshots and full random read/write over NFS are in MapR and > not in HDFS. > > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Kai Voigt <k...@123.org> wrote: >> 3. seems a biased and incomplete statement. >> >> Cloudera’s distribution CDH is fully open source. The proprietary „stuff" >> you refer to is most likely Cloudera Manager, an additional tool to make >> deployment, configuration and monitoring easy. >> >> Nobody is required to use it to run a Hadoop cluster. >> >> Kai (a Cloudera Employee) >> >>> Am 12.08.2014 um 21:56 schrieb Adaryl Bob Wakefield, MBA >>> <adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com>: >>> >>> Hortonworks. Here is my reasoning: >>> 1. Hortonwork is 100% open source. >>> 2. MapR has stuff on their roadmap that Hortonworks has already >>> accomplished and has moved on to other things. >>> 3. Cloudera has proprietary stuff in their stack. No. >>> 4. Hortonworks makes training super accessible and there is a community >>> around it. >>> 5. Who the heck is BigInsights? (Which should tell you something.) >>> >>> Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA >>> Principal >>> Mass Street Analytics >>> 913.938.6685 >>> www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba >>> Twitter: @BobLovesData >>> >>> From: mani kandan >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:12 PM >>> To: user@hadoop.apache.org >>> Subject: Started learning Hadoop. Which distribution is best for native >>> install in pseudo distributed mode? >>> >>> Which distribution are you people using? Cloudera vs Hortonworks vs >>> Biginsights? >>> >> >> Kai Voigt Am Germaniahafen 1 >> k...@123.org >> 24143 Kiel >> +49 160 96683050 >> Germany >> @KaiVoigt >
