Most of your answer can be fetched at hadoop homepage/wiki, just google it.
On Dec 17, 2007 2:50 PM, 王学超 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello,everyone! > Our company prepared to stduy hadoop to deal with massive data. > so company sent me to survey of hadoop community > so there are following questions. please give me some suggestion. thanks > firstly! > > > 1、How active is the community around the software? How many users? Posts > in > a given time period? > > 2、How many committers outside the open source company itself? > > 3、How many downloads are claimed? > > 4、How long does it take to get a response if you pose a question? > > 5、What kind of forum software is used? Login/registration required? > > 6、What is the nature of people in the community? Integrators? Commercial > users vs. academic? > > 7、Who is their typical customer/user ? > > 8、What are the key use cases? > > 9、What programming models are supported? > > 10、Describe the nature of the APIs provided? > > 11、What is specificed at programming type vs. configured at run-time in > terms of parallelization, environment, etc? > > 12、What kind of out-of-box samples are packaged with the middleware? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.