June 19, 2012

Hadoop distributions: CDH 4, HDP 1, Hadoop 2.0, Hadoop 1.0 and all that

This is part of a four-post series, covering:

The posts depend on each other in various ways.

My clients at Cloudera and Hortonworks have somewhat different views as to the maturity of various pieces of Hadoop technology. In particular:

*”CDH” stands, due to some trademarking weirdness, for “Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop”. “HDP” stands for “Hortonworks Data Platform”.

The whole thing seems like a big example of Miles’ Law: Where you stand depends upon where you sit. Cloudera’s embrace of more advanced Apache Hadoop technology is accompanied by claims such as “We built a lot of this ourselves” and “We’ve already tested this stuff at length.” I find Cloudera’s claims credible, and look forward to Hortonworks’ near-future declarations that those Hadoop 2.0 features are “now” enterprise-ready.

For HCatalog, however, the situations are reversed.

For now, my views on selecting Hadoop distributions start:

Comments

14 Responses to “Hadoop distributions: CDH 4, HDP 1, Hadoop 2.0, Hadoop 1.0 and all that”

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  3. Jim Walker on June 20th, 2012 12:47 am

    Thank you for the post. I believe this is one of, if not THE first comparison studies of Apache Hadoop commercial distributions.

    We must note however, that while HCatalog is a big part of HDP, it is not shipped as part of either CDH4 or CDH3. (As reference, here is a link to the CDH package http://tinyurl.com/7tvs3qz.)

    Thanks again, Curt…

  4. Erik Paulson on June 20th, 2012 2:42 pm

    Curt –

    You write “As does CDH 4, HDW” – did you mean HDP there, or is HDW a feature in something?

  5. Curt Monash on June 20th, 2012 5:32 pm

    HDW is a typo for HDP. I thought I’d fixed all the instances of that. Let me go back and search for more. 🙂

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