Hi Massoud, You can see the complete list of patches applied to CDH2's version of Hive 0.4.1 here: http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/2/hive-0.4.1+14.4/changes.html
Thanks. Carl On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, E. Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/9/10 2:40 PM, Massoud Mazar wrote: > >> Since the most active HIVE users are (should be) in this list, I wanted >> to ask your opinion about using the bare hadoop/hive distribution vs. >> Cloudera’s distribution. What are the pros and cons of each? >> >> Thanks >> > > Generally, the Cloudera distros tends to receive patches for bugs / > features their customers have hit / requested faster than the mainline > release cycle. They come in nicely packaged rpm / debs for you and make use > of the alternatives system for configuration management (which is nice for > coordinated configuration changes across a cluster). The ASF distro what's > blessed by the core Hive commiters. The Cloudera distro only has a few > patches applied and I don't remember what those patches address. Ultimately, > all patches from Cloudera (I think) are submitted back to the ASF. Whether > they get included are left to the ASF commiters, of course. > > I've had great luck with the Cloudera distros of Hadoop and Hive. > > In full disclosure, I do some training for Cloudera. > > Hope this helps. > -- > Eric Sammer > [email protected] > http://esammer.blogspot.com >
