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
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
>
