Well Scott kinda side stepped MapR in his response. ;-)
On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Serge Blazhiyevskyy <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Scoot! The first question to answer is "Do you have a problem > with your current distribution?" > > > Thanks > > Serge > On 8/8/12 9:17 AM, "Scott Fines" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's a bit like asking people what the best Linux Distro is..they all >> serve (mostly) the same function, and you're likely to start a religious >> war by stating their differences. >> >> The main point running through all the different flavors of Hadoop is >> that they are all Hadoop. The differences only come from the chosen patch >> sets, which are all open-sourced anyway. At least in theory, you could >> rebuild Cloudera/Hortonworks/whatever just by applying the right >> sequences of patch sets to core Hadoop. >> >> The real question is: Are you happy with what you are currently using? If >> so, why worry about it? If not, why are you unhappy? Answering that >> question is likely to give you the guidance you would like in terms of >> what flavor you wish to pick. >> >> Scott >> >> On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Michael Segel wrote: >> >>> Now that's a loaded question. >>> >>> I'm going to plead the 5th because no matter how I answer it, I will >>> probably piss someone off. ;-P >>> They all have their own respective strengths and weaknesses. >>> (Like that's stopped me before. ;-) >>> >>> -Mike >>> >>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Harit Himanshu >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I have a very basic question - There are various flavors of hadoop by >>>> Apache, Cloudera, MapR, HortonWorks(may be more I am not aware of). >>>> I would like to learn what are the differences between these >>>> distributions and how do I know which distribution is best for me? >>>> I am current using Apache Hadoop >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> + Harit >>> >> > >
