I made a patch for the manual updating our Cloudera text some and adding in MapR reference. I did it here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4140 My wordsmithing is not the best so input appreciated. Will just commit tomorrow and push it out if nought said.
St.Ack On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Buttler, David <[email protected]> wrote: >> However, only two vendors deliver a platform that supports hbase (with >> append): Cloudera and MapR. Â HortonWorks and ASF do not (to my knowledge). I >> am not sure I can count hard to find/compile branches that exist in ASF's >> version control as "supporting" hbase. >> > > Yes. > > The manual says this on hadoop version currently: > > "This version of HBase will only run on Hadoop 0.20.x. It will not run > on hadoop 0.21.x (nor 0.22.x). HBase will lose data unless it is > running on an HDFS that has a durable sync. Hadoop 0.20.2 and Hadoop > 0.20.203.0 DO NOT have this attribute. Currently only the > branch-0.20-append branch has this.... > > Or rather than build your own, you could use Cloudera's CDH3. CDH has > the 0.20-append patches needed to add a durable sync (CDH3 betas will > suffice; b2, b3, or b4)." > > Unless objection, I think I should add MapR to the tail of the last > paragraph (with the 'free as in free beer' caveat). > > St.Ack >
