I have been very grateful for the Cloudera Hadoop distributions. They are well-documented and current, and the Cloudera folks are quick to answer questions both in the issue-tracking system for their customers and on the public mailing lists.
Zak On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/23/10 6:13 PM, Ananth Sarathy wrote: >> Just wanted to get the groups general feelings on what the preferred distro >> is and why? Obviously assuming one didn't have a service agreement with >> cloudera. > > Ananth: > > CDH pros: > > - Nice init scripts. > - Integration with the alternatives management system. > - Nice back ported patches. > - Yum / Apt repository integration / easy updates. > - Frequent bug fixes released. > > CDH cons: > > - Filing bugs with ASF is a bit weird because you may have slightly > different code due to patches. This can be mitigated by filing bugs with > Cloudera and letting them go upstream. > > I'm not entirely neutral, but CDH has little in the way of cons to me. > > Hope that helps. > -- > Eric Sammer > [email protected] > http://esammer.blogspot.com >
