Oh, sorry. Thanks for the noob POV Joe. Invaluable. Let me have a go at it. St.Ack
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Joe Pallas <pal...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Stack wrote: > >> Here is our Hadoop story for 0.90.0: >> http://hbase.apache.org/notsoquick.html#hadoop > > And for someone who is new to HBase and Hadoop, those two paragraphs are > immensely confusing. First it says you have to build your own Hadoop, and > then it says a copy of Hadoop is bundled with HBase. > > The poor newbie is at a total loss. Do I have to build my own copy of Hadoop > or not? Can I download the latest 0.20.x Hadoop and just replace the > hadoop-core jar with the one from the HBase distribution? And then all those > other versions get mentioned, which just makes things even more confusing. > > I think this could be clearer. > joe > >
