Bigtop is fast for me. No downloads necessary. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+install+Hadoop+distribution+from+Bigtop
to setup Hadoop first then HBase is one line: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Running+various+Bigtop+components Bigtop is the same tool Cloudera uses to create the CDH.. dc On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Elliott Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > Whirr( http://whirr.apache.org/ ) has the ability to spin up an > hbase/hadoop cluster. I haven't played with it in a while though; let us > know what you find. > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to kick up a hbase + hadoop cluster really easily (I am a > > developer, so don't want to spend time on setting up the environment). > > > > so far we have the cloudera distro and that sets up a hadoop cluster very > > fast, but to install hbase, according to the > > instructions on cloudera, I have to "yum install" a bunch of packages (I > > guess I have to do this on all the slave nodes???), > > that doesn't sound like a viable approach. > > > > so I'm wondering if there is already a one-button deployment solution > > somewhere. > > > > Thanks! > > Yang > > >
