Friso, I don't disagree with Ryan, however, I think you have to determine which makes the most sense.
Going with CDH3 you get the RPMs, and you know that everything in CDH3 works together. Essentially one stop shopping and you can purchase production support. If you're looking at a pure Dev cluster, maybe mixing and matching makes sense. If you are going to go with CDH3, skip b2 and go with b3. HBase is more stable. If you're going to use HBase from ASF, then why not also get everything from ASF? The reason we chose Cloudera (not that I'm giving them a free plug. :-) is that Cloudera sells support which is something my client wanted from the start. If you are going to go w Cloudera, they support HBase in CDH3 and you don't want to use ASF because it could violate your support contract. HTH -Mike > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:24:30 -0800 > Subject: Re: which HBase version to use? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I have to recommend ASF 0.90, which is in release candidate mode right > now. You'll want to run it on top of CDH3 b2 or b3, but that is up to > you to decide. The hbase team here at Stumbleupon has more time in on > b2. > > -ryan > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Friso van Vollenhoven > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I have the opportunity to reinstall a cluster form scratch. I use Hadoop > > and HBase (not yet any of the other tools, like Pig, Hive, Avro, Thrift, > > etc.). Now, I wonder what versions to use. CDH3 is nice, because it comes > > with RPMs out of the box, so the operations people now what to do with it > > (of course, we can build our own for versions that don't have RPMs). It > > does appear, however, that CDH is mostly focused on a very good Hadoop / > > HDFS / MR version and you're better of with the ASF HBase release right > > now. And there is also the version that SU provides on githug, which has > > the advantage of being heavily used in a production environment by people > > who know what they're doing. > > > > Any advise on this anyone? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Friso > > > >
