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June 26, 2013

Apache Bigtop: The “Fedora of Hadoop”…

Filed under: Bigtop,Crunch,DataFu,Flume,Giraph,HBase,HCatalog,Hive,Hue,Mahout,Oozie,Pig,Solr,Sqoop,Zookeeper — Patrick Durusau @ 10:45 am

Apache Bigtop: The “Fedora of Hadoop” is Now Built on Hadoop 2.x by Roman Shaposhnik.

From the post:

Just in time for Hadoop Summit 2013, the Apache Bigtop team is very pleased to announce the release of Bigtop 0.6.0: The very first release of a fully integrated Big Data management distribution built on the currently most advanced Hadoop 2.x, Hadoop 2.0.5-alpha.

Bigtop, as many of you might already know, is a project aimed at creating a 100% open source and community-driven Big Data management distribution based on Apache Hadoop. (You can learn more about it by reading one of our previous blog posts on Apache Blogs.) Bigtop also plays an important role in CDH, which utilizes its packaging code from Bigtop — Cloudera takes pride in developing open source packaging code and contributing the same back to the community.

The very astute readers of this blog will notice that given our quarterly release schedule, Bigtop 0.6.0 should have been called Bigtop 0.7.0. It is true that we skipped a quarter. Our excuse is that we spent all this extra time helping the Hadoop community stabilize the Hadoop 2.x code line and making it a robust kernel for all the applications that are now part of the Bigtop distribution.

And speaking of applications, we haven’t forgotten to grow the Bigtop family: Bigtop 0.6.0 adds Apache HCatalog and Apache Giraph to the mix. The full list of Hadoop applications available as part of the Bigtop 0.6.0 release is:

  • Apache Zookeeper 3.4.5
  • Apache Flume 1.3.1
  • Apache HBase 0.94.5
  • Apache Pig 0.11.1
  • Apache Hive 0.10.0
  • Apache Sqoop 2 (AKA 1.99.2)
  • Apache Oozie 3.3.2
  • Apache Whirr 0.8.2
  • Apache Mahout 0.7
  • Apache Solr (SolrCloud) 4.2.1
  • Apache Crunch (incubating) 0.5.0
  • Apache HCatalog 0.5.0
  • Apache Giraph 1.0.0
  • LinkedIn DataFu 0.0.6
  • Cloudera Hue 2.3.0

And we were just talking about YARN and applications weren’t we? 😉

Enjoy!

(Participate if you can but at least send a note of appreciation to Cloudera.)

July 2, 2012

Update on Apache Bigtop (incubating)

Filed under: Bigtop,Cloudera,Hadoop — Patrick Durusau @ 6:32 pm

Update on Apache Bigtop (incubating) by Charles Zedlewski.

If you are curious about Apache Bigtop or how Cloudera manages to distribute stable distributions of the Hadoop ecosystem, this is the post for you.

Just to whet your appetite:

From the post:

Ever since Cloudera decided to contribute the code and resources for what would later become Apache Bigtop (incubating), we’ve been answering a very basic question: what exactly is Bigtop and why should you or anyone in the Apache (or Hadoop) community care? The earliest and the most succinct answer (the one used for the Apache Incubator proposal) simply stated that “Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Hadoop ecosystem”. That was a nice explanation of how Bigtop relates to the rest of the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Hadoop ecosystem projects, yet it doesn’t really help you understand the aspirations of Bigtop.

Building and supporting CDH taught us a great deal about what was required to be able to repeatedly assemble a truly integrated, Apache Hadoop based data management system. The build, testing and packaging cost was considerable, and we regularly observed that different projects made different design choices that made ongoing integration difficult. We also realized that more and more mission critical workload was running on CDH and the customer demand for stability, predictability and compatibility was increasing.

Apache Bigtop was part of our answer two solve these two different problems. Initiate an Apache open source project that focused on creating the testing and integration infrastructure of an Apache-Hadoop based distribution. With it we hoped that:

  1. We could better collaborate within the extended Apache community to contribute to resolving test, integration & compatibility issues across projects
  2. We could create a kind of developer-focused distribution that would be able to release frequently, unencumbered by the enterprise expectations for long-term stability and compatibility.

See the post for details.

PS: The project is picking up speed and looking for developers/contributors.

April 4, 2012

Apache Bigtop 0.3.0 (incubating) has been released

Filed under: Bigtop,Flume,Hadoop,HBase,Hive,Mahout,Oozie,Sqoop,Zookeeper — Patrick Durusau @ 2:33 pm

Apache Bigtop 0.3.0 (incubating) has been released by Roman Shaposhnik.

From the post:

Apache Bigtop 0.3.0 (incubating) is now available. This is the first fully integrated, community-driven, 100% Apache Big Data management distribution based on Apache Hadoop 1.0. In addition to a major change in the Hadoop version, all of the Hadoop ecosystem components have been upgraded to the latest stable versions and thoroughly tested:

  • Apache Hadoop 1.0.1
  • Apache Zookeeper 3.4.3
  • Apache HBase 0.92.0
  • Apache Hive 0.8.1
  • Apache Pig 0.9.2
  • Apache Mahout 0.6.1
  • Apache Oozie 3.1.3
  • Apache Sqoop 1.4.1
  • Apache Flume 1.0.0
  • Apache Whirr 0.7.0

Thoughts on what is missing from this ecosystem?

What if you moved from the company where you wrote the scripts? And they needed new scripts?

Re-write? On what basis?

Is your “big data” big enough to need “big documentation?”

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