Hi Kasi: I think all three companies have great engineering teams and do excellent distributions of Hadoop.
Below is my $0.02, and quick-and-dirty analysis of the question. I don't have hands-on experience with all of these in production, so take with abundant grains of salt. * If you want to support production environments and need corporate support, use Cloudera * If you want to stay with Hadoop from Apache and stay current with open source developments, use Hortonworks * If you need absolute native performance or to run on Microsoft Windows, use MapR There are other considerations that may apply, such as choice of real-time BigData platform (e.g., Storm or Impala), and whether you want to integrate patches from other sources such as Facebook's AvatarNode (HDFS-976) or Prism (patch presumed forthcoming). You and your team are the best judges of these concerns. Regards, Al On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Kasi Subrahmanyam <kasisubbu...@gmail.com>wrote: > How to decide which distribution(cloudera,mapr,hortonworks) to use while > working on hadoop? >
