Andrew, great to hear that you are also using BigTop. I will surely try it out, to replace my (a little bit) old CDH cluster. :-)
cheers Demai On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Bigtop, in a nutshell, is a non-commercial multi-stakeholder Apache > project that produces a build framework that takes as input source from > Hadoop and related big data projects and produces as output OS native > packages for installation and management - certainly, a distribution of the > Hadoop ecosystem - coupled with a suite of integration tests for ensuring > the distribution components are working well together, coupled with a suite > of Puppet scripts for post-deploy configuration management. It's a rather > large nutshell. (Smile) Bigtop distribution packages are supported by > Cask's Coopr (coopr.io) and I think to some extent by Ambari (haven't > tried it). > > I've personally used Bigtop for years to produce several custom Hadoop > distributions. For this purpose it is a great tool. > > Please mail [email protected] if you would like to know more, we'd > love to talk with you. > > > On Jun 2, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Demai Ni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris and Roman, > > many thanks for the quick response. I will take a look at bigtop. > Actually, I heard about it, but thought it is a installation framework, > instead of a hadoop distribution. Now I am looking at the BigTop 0.7.0 > hadoop instruction, which probably will work fine for my needs. Appreciate > the pointer. > > Roman, I will ping you off list for ODP. I was hoping ODP will be the one > for me. Well, in reality, it is owned by a few companies, at least not by > ONE company. :-) It is fine with me, as long as ODP is open to be used by > others. I am just having trouble to find document/installation info of the > ODP. maybe I should google harder? :-) > > Demai > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Demai Ni <[email protected]> wrote: >> > My question is besides the commercial distributions: CDH(Cloudera) , >> HDP >> > (Horton work), and others like Mapr, IBM... Is there a distribution >> that is >> > NOT owned by a company? I am looking for something simple for cluster >> > configuration/installation for multiple components: hdfs, yarn, >> zookeeper, >> > hive, hbase, maybe Spark. Surely, for a well-experience person(not me), >> > he/she can build the distribution from Apache releases. Well, I am more >> > interested on building application on top of it, and hopefully to find >> one >> > packed them together. >> >> Apache Bigtop (CCed) aims at delivering a 100% open and >> community-driven distribution of big data management technologies >> around Apache Hadoop. Same as, for example, what Debian is trying >> to do for Linux. >> >> > BTW, I don't need the latest releases like other commercial distribution >> > offered. I am also looking into the ODP(the open data platform), but >> that >> > project is kind of quiet after the initial Feb announcement. >> >> Feel free to ping me off list if you want more details on ODP. >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> > >
