Hey all, I want to setup an environment where I can teach myself hadoop. Usually the way I'll handle this is to grab a machine off the Amazon free tier and setup whatever software I want.
However I realize that Hadoop is a memory intensive, big data solution. So what I'm wondering is, would a t2.micro instance be sufficient for setting up a cluster of hadoop nodes with the intention of learning it? To keep things running longer in the free tier I would either setup however many nodes as I want and keep them stopped when I'm not actively using them. Or just setup a few nodes with a few different accounts (with a different gmail address for each one.. easy enough to do). Failing that, what are some other free/cheap solutions for setting up a hadoop learning environment? Thanks, Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
