Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 Community Preview Now Available
June 26, 2013—Hortonworks, a leading contributor and provider to enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 Community Preview and the launch of the Hortonworks Certification Program for Apache Hadoop YARN to accelerate the availability of YARN-based partner solutions. Based on the next evolution of Apache Hadoop, including the first functional Apache YARN framework that has been more than four years in the making, the 100-percent open source HDP 2.0 features the latest advancements from the open source community that are igniting a new wave of Hadoop innovation.
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Please join Hortonworks for a webinar on HDP 2.0 on Wednesday, July 10 at 10 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. To register for the webinar, please visit: http://bit.ly/1226vAP.
Availability
Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 Community Preview is available today as a downloadable single-node instance that runs inside a virtual machine, and also as a complete installation for deployment to distributed infrastructure. To download HDP 2.0, please visit: http://bit.ly/15DBbd1.
New in this release: Apache YARN, Apache Tex, and, Stinger.