Right now you can't get 0.90 from CDH3. It is an 0.89-<mumble>. It will not be a better choice than 0.90 once 0.90 is released.
We are looking at deploying CDH3B3 plus a custom RPM built in house that updates the CDH3B3 HBase package to 0.90. I'm not sure we forgo support for our ops team just because we do that. I can't comment as an authority on Cloudera's business of course since I do not work from them, but as a customer I expect by the letter of the contract we cannot (and would not anyway) ask for support for HBase if using a custom version, but e.g. any HDFS related trouble is independent and we would be very unhappy if told otherwise. Best regards, - Andy --- On Mon, 11/22/10, Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> > Subject: RE: which HBase version to use? > To: user@hbase.apache.org > Date: Monday, November 22, 2010, 9:15 AM > > Friso, > > I don't disagree with Ryan, however, I think you have to > determine which makes the most sense. > > Going with CDH3 you get the RPMs, and you know that > everything in CDH3 works together. > Essentially one stop shopping and you can purchase > production support. > > If you're looking at a pure Dev cluster, maybe mixing and > matching makes sense. > > If you are going to go with CDH3, skip b2 and go with b3. > HBase is more stable. > If you're going to use HBase from ASF, then why not also > get everything from ASF? > > The reason we chose Cloudera (not that I'm giving them a > free plug. :-) is that Cloudera sells support which is > something my client wanted from the start. > If you are going to go w Cloudera, they support HBase in > CDH3 and you don't want to use ASF because it could violate > your support contract. > > HTH > > -Mike > > > > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:24:30 -0800 > > Subject: Re: which HBase version to use? > > From: ryano...@gmail.com > > To: user@hbase.apache.org > > > > I have to recommend ASF 0.90, which is in release > candidate mode right > > now. You'll want to run it on top of CDH3 b2 or > b3, but that is up to > > you to decide. The hbase team here at > Stumbleupon has more time in on > > b2. > > > > -ryan > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Friso van > Vollenhoven > > <fvanvollenho...@xebia.com> > wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I have the opportunity to reinstall a cluster > form scratch. I use Hadoop and HBase (not yet any of the > other tools, like Pig, Hive, Avro, Thrift, etc.). Now, I > wonder what versions to use. CDH3 is nice, because it comes > with RPMs out of the box, so the operations people now what > to do with it (of course, we can build our own for versions > that don't have RPMs). It does appear, however, that CDH is > mostly focused on a very good Hadoop / HDFS / MR version and > you're better of with the ASF HBase release right now. And > there is also the version that SU provides on githug, which > has the advantage of being heavily used in a production > environment by people who know what they're doing. > > > > > > Any advise on this anyone? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Friso > > > > > > > > > >