On: Hadoop Reaches 1.0

[CatDaaaady]

It was already prod ready in my opinion. I think this release is more of a "polish" thing since some people are timid to run "0.20" code in prod.

[knappster → CatDaaaady]

Agreed.

Working with hadoop a few years ago was a pain in the ass, what really made it ready (at least for me) was the packaging done by Cloudera.

[rvs → knappster]

There's now an Apache effort for producing a fully packaged, validated and deployable stack of Hadoop components. The project is called Apache Bigtop (incubating) and the relationship with Cloudera's CDH is like a relationship between Debian and Ubuntu. We make it super easy for folks to deploy the released versions of Bigtop distribution either via packages: http://bit.ly/rHpybV or VMs: http://bit.ly/tBGmNt

[sanswork → knappster]

I've run clusters with and without Cloudera and I'd never go back to without it. It just works which when setting up a new cluster is often something you can't say.