I think we should also avoid hijacking threads for that sort of discussion (sorry Joseph!).
J-D On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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 >> >
