I aslo looking for a good and easy learn doc.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, John Lilley <[email protected]>wrote: > We are somewhat new to Hadoop and are looking to run some experiments > with HDFS, Pig, and HBase. **** > > With that in mind, I have a few questions:**** > > What is the easiest (preferably free) Hadoop distro to get started with? > Cloudera?**** > > What host OS distro/release is recommended?**** > > What is the easiest environment to get started with? Amazon EC2? Is > there anyone offering virtual/hosted prebuilt Hadoop instances?**** > > Where would we find some “big data” files that people have used for > testing purposes?**** > > Feel free to RTFM me to the right place ;-)**** > > Thanks, john**** > > ** ** >
